New Delhi, March 12 A committee at IIT-Gandhinagar will review Michel Danino's role as a guest professor following a directive from the Supreme Court, which directed the government and public institutions to disassociate from him due to a controversy surrounding a chapter on judicial corruption in a now-withdrawn NCERT textbook, officials said.
Danino, who received the Padma award, was the chairperson of the curricular area group that develops social science textbooks for NCERT. Two other members of the drafting committee – Suparna Diwakar and Alok Prasanna Kumar – have also come under scrutiny, in addition to Danino.
The Supreme Court, acting decisively against the three experts involved in drafting the controversial chapter in NCERT's class 8 social science book, which contained "offensive" content on corruption in the judiciary, directed the Centre and all state governments to disassociate from the three experts on Wednesday.
"A committee will examine Danino's appointment in light of the Supreme Court's directive, and a decision will be made after that," a senior official told
