Karnataka Assembly photos, misplaced Niyamgiri hills: Over 1,600 errors found in new Odisha school textbooks

Similarly, Odisha’s Niyamgiri Hills were incorrectly described as being located in Jharkhand, Maharana said. Maharana demanded an inquiry and action against those responsible. “The government should immediately correct the errors and distribute revised textbooks to the students,” he said.

School and Mass Education Minister Nityananda Gond said “the department is concerned about the errors and taking necessary steps for rectification”. “As the textbooks were newly prepared, there might have been some printing mistakes,” he said.

Meanwhile, the opposition BJD alleged that the BJP government is destroying the Odia education system. Party spokesperson Lenin Mohanty asserted that these textbooks were a “national embarrassment”, and “such errors not only undermine the Odia language, literature and culture, but also jeopardise the future of students”. The BJD leader demanded immediate withdrawal of all “defective textbooks”, and a high-level inquiry.