Overview
- A three-member inquiry led by Development Commissioner D.K. Singh submitted its report to Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi within the seven-day deadline on Friday, June 26, 2026.
- The government accepted the committee’s 14-point recommendations, which include a Master Errata Register, a dedicated Quality Assurance Cell in SCERT, a final locked PDF process, pilot testing of new books, and penalties or blacklisting for vendors.
- Four senior SCERT officials were suspended and disciplinary proceedings began against six others with former SCERT director Manoj Padhi and assistant directors Pralipta Mishra, Dilip Kumar Sahu, and Bharati Tudu named among those suspended.
- The state acknowledged 1,678 mistakes in Class 1–8 textbooks while teachers reported more than 2,100 errors, with examples including Isaac Newton mislabelled as a “pilot,” a Karnataka assembly photo used for Odisha, and Hampi misidentified as Konark.
- Authorities ordered withdrawal or correction of distributed books, issuance of replacement pages and corrected PDFs as the official teaching copy, and warned that reprinting costs could be recovered if the probe finds deliberate malpractice affecting nearly 2.98 crore printed textbooks.