The Ministry of Education has decided to drop the hotly debated 'Story of Sharifa' from the seventh class 'History and Social Science' book. In the book that will be printed for next year, this story will be replaced by a new story about the third gender population or the transgender population. The Ministry of Education has taken this decision based on the recommendations given by the expert committee.
Recently, the Ministry of Education informed the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) about this instruction.
NCTB Chairman (Routine Duties) Professor Md. Mashiuzzaman confirming the matter said, we received a letter about this. The letter asks for the story to be corrected, modified, or replaced with a new story. There we will put a story about the transgender community.
Earlier, in the current year, the students of class VII will study the new curriculum textbooks 'History and Social Science; when you get it, many debates start. The debate started with a story named 'Sharifa's story' there. The story depicts the story of boy to girl.
After the debate started across the country, the Ministry of Education formed a five-member committee to review the 'Sharifa story'. Five months later, last May, the committee sent a recommendation to the Education Ministry to drop the story.