The Government admitted in Rajya Sabha that four NCERT history school textbooks contain factual errors, biases and colouration; and steps were being taken to rectify these. This said by Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Rita Verma in a written reply. Objectionable references had been found in renowned historian Ms Romila Thapar's book 'Ancient India' prescribed for Class six and Mr Ram Sharan Sharma's 'Ancient India' prescribed for Class XI students. Verma said two other school textbooks by historian couple Arjun and Indira Dev prescribed for class XI and by Satish Chandra on 'Medieval India' had also been found to contain objectionable matter.

Miss Verma also said that NCERT is in the process of developing textbooks based on a new syllabus and due care was being taken to ensure that these books did not not contain any references likely to hurt the sentiments of any particular community or religious minority. These new text books would be introduced from the next academic session