Savarkar replaces Nehru in Goa's Class 10 history book: NSUI
Panaji, July 25 : A photograph of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has been dropped and replaced by freedom fighter Vinayak Savarkar in Class 10 Social Science books, the NSUI Goa chief said here on Wednesday.
"It is very sad that the BJP has removed the photo of Pandit Nehru from the text book and Savarkar's photo has been included in the books of the Goa Education Authority," Ahraz Mulla said.
"Tomorrow, they will remove the photo of Mahatma Gandhi and question what Congress has done in 60 years," the Congress' student wing leader said.
"They have to ensure they do not change history, which our ancestors have given us and the fight which the Congress has carried out for Independence," the National Students' Union of India's Goa head said at a press conference.
The book titled "India and the Contemporary World II - Democratic Politics", is a history and political science text book and is part of the syllabus of students studying in Class 10 in Goa.
In the last edition of the book, which was a part of the curriculum in the last educational year, page 68 contained a photograph of Nehru, along with Mahatma Gandhi and Maulana Azad at Sevagram ashram at Vardha, Maharashtra in 1935.
Ahraz Mulla claims that the photo has been removed and the current edition of the same book includes a coloured photo of Savarkar instead of Nehru on the same page.
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Bridge portion collapses on Jammu outskirts; 3-4 labourers feared trapped, 1 rescued
Jammu (PTI): A portion of a small bridge collapsed in the Bantalab area on the outskirts of Jammu city on Friday, trapping at least three to four labourers under the debris, while one injured worker was rescued, official sources said.
Authorities have closed the road link following the collapse of the portion of the bridge.
The incident occurred when labourers were carrying out repair work on a retaining wall near the bridge that was damaged in last year's flash floods, the sources said.
According to the sources, a section of the bridge suddenly gave way, burying workers engaged at the site under the rubble.
Police, Army and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams launched rescue operations to extricate those buried under the debris. They pulled out one injured labourer and shifted him to a hospital, the sources said.
Family members of the labourers present at the site said around six workers engaged at the site at the time of the incident came under the debris when the structure collapsed. The family members said while two of the labourers managed to escape, four got trapped.
The sources said those trapped included the husband of a woman labourer, a mason, an unmarried labourer and a relative of the contractor.
There was no official confirmation on the exact number of persons trapped under the debris till the filing of this report.
The rescue operations are ongoing.
