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By Our Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI, MAY 22. The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) has prepared 50 textbooks for 18 lakh children studying in 2,500 government, government-aided and municipal corporation schools across the Capital. These textbooks, titled "Indradhanush", have been given to primary school students free of cost. To generate interest among students, lessons based on interviews with cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, eminent writer Mahashweta Devi and shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan have been included in the textbooks. While institutions like Lady Shri Ram College, Miranda House and Mother's International have been involved in writing the Indradhanush series, archival material from The Hindu newspaper and Outlook magazine has been extensively used. Visuals of archaeological sights discovered in Delhi have been incorporated into the textbooks to give students a glimpse of the ancient and medieval periods. The Mussoorie-based writer Ruskin Bond's "A Summer of 1942" has been included to give the students a feel of how the Capital was like before independence. The textbooks have been written in a lucid style keeping in mind the diversity of languages like Hindi and Punjabi spoken among children living in urban slums and villages. At a press conference here this past week, the New Delhi District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) Principal, Shashi Kochar, said: "Besides following a bilingual approach to studies, we do warm-up activities before teaching the subject. If we want to teach about the country's first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, we will first ask the students what they know about the Congress President, Sonia Gandhi, and then ask them about Indira Gandhi. This way we trace the family tree and make the subject interesting for the students.''
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