Chhattisgarh blames working women for increase in unemployment

Chhattisgarh is a BJP-ruled state and in its Class-10 textbook it is said that working women are responsible for rising unemployment. This is yet another faux-pas and makes a mockery of the policies of Narendra Modi-led BJP government because it is pushing for women empowerment and gender equality.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 23 September 2015.

The textbook has been published by Chhattisgarh Board of Secondary Education and it mentions that the rate of unemployment after Independence has increased because women have started working in all sectors. A teacher in the Jashpur district has filed a petition in the state women's commission against the same.
The commission has agreed to take the matter up with Chief Minister Raman Singh.
Incidentally, such instances have been there in the past from other states as well. In 2014, West Bengal Class-8 textbooks labelled revolutionary freedom fighters like Khudiram Bose, Jatindranath Mukherjee and Prafulla Chaki as 'terrorists'. In 2013, the Maharashtra government had ordered the withdrawal of Class X geography textbooks that excluded Arunachal Pradesh from the map of India. And, in 2012, textbook in a CBSE school claimed that non-vegetarians lie, cheat and commit crimes.
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