The state government has suspended four senior officials, including the former SCERT director, following a committee probe into textbook errors. A Class 8 Odia textbook lists Bollywood tracks ‘Nimbooda…Nimbooda’ and ‘Rind Posh Maal’ as examples of folk songs, drawing criticism amid ongoing scrutiny over mistakes in school materials. The book Kruti presents lyrics from the 1999 film Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam as a Rajasthani folk example and the song from the 2000 movie Mission Kashmir as a Kashmiri folk example. References to these tracks, plus ‘Raja Doli’ in a Class 5 English book and ‘Bumbro…Bumbro’ in a Class 3 book, have fueled debate. All four songs have folk origins, with ‘Rind Posh Maal’ tracing to an 18th-century Kashmiri poem by Rasul Mir.
