Chandigarh, March 18 -- Punjab Vidhan Sabha speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan on Monday wrote to Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan drawing his attention to several errors in the Punjabi textbook "Punjabi Primer" (Punjabi Qaida) published under the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi.

The book is designed for children and adult literacy programmes at balvatika and anganwadi level, with several errors in spelling and publication of facts, especially the Punjabi alphabet.

He said that one of the biggest mistakes in the book is that the Punjabi alphabet has been wrongly started from "A" instead of the correct order "O". Such mistakes not only mislead young learners but also undermine the effectiven...