The Odisha government has directed the Crime Branch to investigate alleged factual inaccuracies, conceptual mistakes, and grammatical errors in state school textbooks.

Following a high-level committee's probe report on the errors, senior education officials were suspended, and disciplinary actions initiated against multiple directors.

The errors, found in 55 textbooks under the New Education Policy framework, include misplaced geographical references, scientific inaccuracies, and translation flaws.

Officials attributed the mistakes to rushed curriculum implementation, inadequate manuscript preparation time, and deviations from standard textbook development processes.The Crime Branch will now trace accountability for the lapses and recommend legal action if needed.The textbooks, printed in 29.6 million copies for 5.

3 million students, faced widespread criticism from educators and parents, with some errors like claiming fertility can be regained by visiting a specific cave sparking outrage.