New Delhi: As major Opposition parties gathered on October 16 to discuss alleged saffronisation of curriculum, Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi said that government will not interfere with the framing of curriculum and also ruled out foreign direct investment (FDI) in the education sector.

"The Supreme Court has already decided what we have done is right. The framing of curriculum is a matter between the NCERT (National Council for Education, Research and Training) and the writers of the textbooks," Joshi said and charged the Opposition with politicising the issue.

He was addressing a press conference on the occasion of the completion of three years of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government.

Asked to comment on the NCERT book not carrying certain information about Mahatma Gandhi's assassination, he evaded a direct answer saying that he had not seen the books.

"The NCERT director had already said that if there is something wrong, it will be rectified. So it is a matter between who teaches and who writes," he said.

Dismissing Opposition charge of saffronising of education as politically motivated, he said, "we are constructive, they are destructive".

Joshi also ruled out any FDI in the education sector and said that the country should devise its education programme with its own resources.

"We have not allowed FDI and will not allow it in future also," he said.

PTI