Expert committee recommends removal of Sharifa's Story from textbooks for 'inconsistencies'
Dhaka, May 17 -- An expert committee has recommended the Ministry of Education remove the controversial Sharifa's Story from Class VII textbooks.
Sharifa's Story was included as a public awareness lesson about the Hijra community in the history and social science books under the new curriculum.
In January, Asif Mahtab Utsha, a part-time teacher at BRAC University, caused controversy when he tore out the pages containing the story from a textbook during a protest, saying that it promoted homosexuality.
Amid the controversy, the Ministry of Education formed a five-member committee of high-level experts to consider the story's inclusion in the textbook.
Islamic Foundation Governor Mufti Kafiluddin Sarkar Salehi, a member of the committee...
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