No plans to remove Tagore from school books: HRD Minister
HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar informed Rajya Sabha that government has no plans to remove Rabindranath Tagore from school textbooks. Javadekar was responding to a query raised by Opposition regarding RSS-affiliated organisation's recommendations of removing thoughts of Tagore from textbooks for all classes. The MP who raised the issue also gave Javadekar three books on Tagore for his reading.