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It also has a brief biography of the late leader.A class VI school teacher in Agra, Geeta, said, “The text book is a source from where children gain knowledge. Sometimes, teachers get confused due to such errors.”A class VI student, Ajay Kumar said, “We believe in the printed word in text books and hence such errors should be checked and rectified. Principal secretary (basic education) Prabhat Kumar said, “I have instructed the department to scrutinise all books for factual errors and, if any are found, to rectify them. Agra: Nearly 50,000 students of class VI in Uttar Pradesh have been learning the wrong date of birth of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee , as it has been printed incorrectly in the text book ‘Manjari’, published by the basic education department.Instead of December 25, the book states that Vajpayee was born on December 2. But what will they learn if there are such factual inaccuracies?.