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News India Live, Digital Desk: The ongoing battle over changes and ‘controversial’ content in NCERT books has now reached the threshold of the country’s biggest court. The academics and professors who had prepared the chapters which have now been excised or described as controversial, have approached the Supreme Court. This petition filed before the bench headed by Justice Surya Kant has once again sparked a new debate in the world of education and politics. Scholars’ argument: ‘A question of our intellectual property and credibility’. The academics who reached the Supreme Court argue that removing the chapters written by them from the books or making arbitrary changes in them is a violation of their intellectual freedom. The petitioners say that they had prepared these materials after decades of research. According to him, the changes made in the books without his consent will not only lead to a decline in his academic standards but will also harm his credibility as a writer. The petition demands that transparency should be maintained in this process. What is the whole controversy? Let us tell you that for some time, the process of removing or shortening certain historical references, political movements and social chapters from the NCERT textbooks has been going on. The government and the council argue that this has been done to reduce the burden on students (syllabus rationalization). However, the petitioner professors allege that these changes are motivated less by academic reasons and more by ideological reasons. Now the bench of Justice Surya Kant has to decide how much intervention is needed in this matter. Eyes fixed on the bench of Justice Surya Kant. This case is being considered very important in the legal circles because this matter is directly to the education policy of the country and the rights of experts. The petitioners have urged the court to remove their names from the books in which changes have been made contrary to their original spirit. Justice Surya Kant’s bench is ready to hear this case, which will now make it clear who will have control over the content of school books in the future and to what extent. This decision of the Supreme Court has created a stir in the academic world and has divided historians and educationists across the country into two factions. One section is considering it as a necessary step towards modernizing the curriculum, while the other is calling it tampering with history. However, the Supreme Court’s decision will decide whether experts have the right to limit the extent to which the government can modify the content written by them.