Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government is likely include in its textbooks, the history lessons omitted by the central government.

The State Council of Education Research and Training (SCERT Kerala) will prepare special textbooks to teach topics omitted from syllabus by National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). The decision was taken in the state curriculum committee meeting on Tuesday. A final decision will be taken by the Education Minister.

The Curriculum Committee has criticized the NCERT for omitting portions on freedom fighters, Gujarat riots and RSS ban from the textbook.

The corrections were made in text books from 6th to 12th grades as part of 'syllabus rationalisation'.

The NCERT has omitted references of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a freedom fighter and India's first education minister , from the new political science textbook for class 11.

The council also dropped certain portions including lessons on Gujarat riots, Mughal courts, Emergency, Cold War, Naxalite movement, among others from its textbooks citing 'overlapping' and 'irrelevant' as reasons..

The Curriculum Committee has decided to release a supplementary textbook by SCERT to cover these portions.

Earlier, Education Minister V Sivankutty had stated that Kerala will not accept the central decision to exclude subjects like RSS ban, caste system and social movements from the curriculum.