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Odisha student outfit seeks minister's ouster, calls Sept 30 bandh

Bhubaneswar, Sep 28 (UNI) The Naba Nirman Yuva Chhatra Sangathan, a student outfit, has demanded the resignation of School and Mass Education Minister Nityananda Gond over glaring factual errors in school textbooks and called a 12-hour Odisha bandh on September 30.
The organisation claimed that textbooks for Classes 1 to 8 published by the State School and Mass Education Department contain 1,678 factual errors, alleging that the lapses go beyond printing mistakes.
It has demanded the withdrawal of the error-ridden books and the distribution of corrected editions among students. The bandh will be observed from 6 am to 6 pm on September 30, it said.
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