With the world proclaiming the Indian education system as one of the best, things which are being taught to students here are not justified.

Despite the government introducing several initiatives towards imparting education, several state boards are seen printing wrong and politicised content in school textbooks.

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After calling Jesus Christ as 'haivaan' or devil, the Gujarat State School Textbook Board (GSSTB) has again come under scanner and this time for calling 'Roza' or the period of fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramzan, "an infectious disease in which one suffers from diarrhoea and vomiting."

Calling it a mere 'printing error,' Gujarat GSSTB Nitin Pethani admitted the mistake.

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Take a look at the content:

As reported by the Indian Express, the error was spotted on page number 13 at the end of chapter 3, in a story 'Idgah' by Premchand in the Class 4 Hindi textbook for Hindi medium students. The definition of the second word 'roza' in shabdarth (meaning) was given as "ek chaatak tatha sankramak rog jisme dast aur kaai ati hai (an infectious disease that leads to diarrhoea and vomiting)."

Here what the Gujarat GSSTB chairman said:

Instead of roza, there should be haiza (cholera), but mistakenly both these words have been interchanged, Pethani added.

"We will issue a correction for Hindi-medium schools. Not more than 15,000 copies of this textbook were published due to a limited number of Hindi-medium students," he added.

While taking the matter to the higher authorities, Ahmedabad-based Right to Education (RTE) Forum, led by Mujahid Nafees, said, "The Forum has planned to submit a complaint to the GSSTB and the state government errors regarding religions will not be accepted and action must be taken against those involved."

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