New Delhi, Jun 27 (UNI) Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia today said the design of the textbooks must be with the sole purpose of improving learning outcome of the children. "Successive governments have used education as an ideological battlefield, that is used to force certain narratives on children. Education must not be a platform for such political point scoring. The design of our textbooks must be with the sole purpose of improving learning outcomes of our children,"Mr Sisodia said at the 54th General Council meeting of the National Centre for Education Research and Training (NCERT). He said,"Textbooks should help children build on their own life experiences, so as to generate genuine interest and curiosity among them for the textbooks." The NCERT had invited reviews of its textbooks from states at the meeting. On behalf of the Delhi Government, Mr Sisodia presented a detailed critique of the textbooks and wrote a letter to Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on the issue. Mr Sisodia read all textbooks of each subject over the past few weeks and compiled a systematic review of the textbooks. His letter to the Union HRD Minister also includes subject-wise reviews compiled by the teachers of Delhi. Delhi government's mentor teachers have designed special supplementary material for all subjects for Classes 6 to 8 called "Pragati". 'Pragati' material is aimed at overcoming the shortcomings of textbooks as felt by teachers. UNI PY RSA SHK 1954