How did 1,700 errors creep into Odisha school textbooks? Some answers

How did 1, 700 errors creep into Odisha school textbooks?

Key points

• On Wednesday, thousands of BJD workers staged a dharna outside the state Assembly, demanding the resignation of School and Mass Education Minister Nityananda Gond.
• The committee additionally slammed the review process, saying the rigours of academic scrutiny and final academic approval were fragile.

How did 1, 700 errors creep into Odisha school textbooks? Some answers Among reasons: Same resource persons in multiple roles, subdued academic rigour and unrealistic timelines. Written by: Sujit Bisoyi. 4 min read Bhubaneswar Sep 24, 2026 05: 20 AM IST. (Image generated by AI).

For context, the same resource persons in multiple roles, subdued academic rigour and unrealistic timelines – this is what a three-member panel looking into the 1, 700-odd errors in Odisha school textbooks is learnt to have identified.

In its report, the three-member panel discovered that the mistakes – which range from factual inaccuracies and grammatical errors to wrong references – were not "merely printing errors" but related to content, concepts, facts, pictures, and language. The committee additionally slammed the review process, saying the rigours of academic scrutiny and final academic approval were fragile.

This comes at a time when the youth and students' wings of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) stepped up attacks against the BJP administration over the errors in its newly published textbooks. On Wednesday, thousands of BJD workers staged a dharna outside the state Assembly, demanding the resignation of School and Mass Education Minister Nityananda Gond.

For now, how did 1, 700 errors creep into Odisha school textbooks? Some answers remains the part of the story worth watching, and further updates are likely as more details are confirmed.