Director of NCERT Dinesh Prasad Saklani stated that there is no attempt to remove information about the Mughal rule in India, but the changes in history books have been carried out to reduce the burden on the students. There has been a lot of learning loss due to the Covid pandemic and the students underwent a lot of trauma. To help the students and as a responsibility to society and the nation, it was felt that the content load in textbooks should be reduced.
The experts felt that some chapters were overlapping across subjects and classes, Saklani said some parts were removed to minimise the content load on students, who faced a traumatic pandemic and were under a lot of stress. He strongly rejected the allegations that the changes were made to suit a particular ideology.