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Maharashtra to ban CBSE textbooks on sex education

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MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Government is going to ban in the state textbooks published by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) containing material teaching sex to school students.

The Minister of State for School Education, Hasan Mushrif, announced the ban in the Assembly on Friday when the House debated the Opposition Shiv Sena-BJP's calling attention motion on the Government's move to make sex education compulsory from the standard six onwards from the next academic year.

The opposition members said amidst noisy scenes that the CBSE books contained obscene photographs and could harm the students who are as young as 12 years.

Mr. Mushrif said that the Maharashtra Government had no plan to introduce sex education in the State.

Replying to a question, he said that the CBSE books would be banned "on the lines of the action taken by the government against the books by controversial American author, James Laine."

The State Government had banned James Laine's books, `Shivaji — Hindu King in Islamic India' and `Epic of Shivaji' for carrying objectionable references and hurting people's sentiments.

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