The National Monitoring Committee (NMC), which examined the recommendations, decided to set up a sub-committee to prepare a formal response to the panel's recommendations and submit it by next week.
"Simultaneously, the textbook development committee on political science would work with NCERT director and make whatever changes are required keeping in mind the public debate on some cartoons," said an NCERT statement after a five-hour long meeting here.
The statement, however, did not elaborate on the nature of changes though sources said the controversial cartoons on B R Ambedkar and the one relating to anti-Hindi agitation in Tamil Nadu could be axed.
Asked as to why NMC failed to arrive at a decision today and its response to the Thorat panel recommendations, NMC member Zoya Hasan said these are issues on which decisions cannot be taken "instantaneously" because they relate to textbook materials.
"...You have to respect the public debate, but you cannot instantly say we accept or reject it. It needs much greater discussions," she told reporters.
However, she said that "by and large, the members felt that there were many inadequacies in the report and the grounds that have been given for removal of the cartoons are not very satisfactory," she said.
"At a personal level, I feel there are a number of problems with the panel report. It has not really given convincing reasons for the deletion of the cartoons and I think it has not done justice to the complexities of the issues under discussion," she said. MORE
