Srinagar, Feb. 17 -- The Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) invited ridicule for an apparent 'replace all' job in a version of a Class 10 textbook. As a video about the issue, where every mention of the word 'state' has been replaced with 'UT' irrespective of the context, did the rounds on social media, people and community leaders took the opportunity to slam the education board and the government.

The book is question is 'Disaster Management and Road Safety Education', which is replete with phrases such as the 'UT of human body'.

For instance, on page numbers 29 and 30, 'unconsciousness and fainting is a state of human body.' in the earlier versions has been replaced with 'unconsciousness and fainting is a UT of huma...