Tuesday, 3 June 2014

Letter to PM for Reviving Education System.

To,

Shri Narendra Modi
Prime Minister of India
New Delhi,

Subject: Reviving Education System.

Respected Sir,

Its really great to know that you want each & every youth of the nation to dedicate themselves for the nation in whatever work they do. Your drive to clean India is a great step to make them responsible towards our nation. Sir, all these would have not required if it would have been inculcated in the students through our education system, which is faulty in so many ways & not helpful for the inclusive growth of the student.

Earlier there was no 10+2, Indira Gandhi introduced it, in which students have to study their optional subjects for 5 years (in XI, XII & 3 year graduation). How much this 10 + 2 system is useful, this is the matter to think again. Students are burdened so much of the study material which they find no utility in their future jobs. Better these 2 years should be used for more constructive purpose, which are as follows:

After the age of 18, it should be compulsory for all students to serve nation in Indian Army for one year. It will not only help to strengthen our Army & to select the best candidate for the defense but also will give opportunity to students to learn & develop so many things as –

• Discipline
• Communal Harmony
• can learn Nationalism above all religions
• can develop physical & mental strength to face challenges.
• Dedication towards Nation.

His 2nd year should be used in –

• Research work on any subject they like.
• Compulsory Yoga training
• Optional Veda & Upanishads
• Social Service to connect to the downtrodden people & poor villagers.
• Sanskrit language to gain scientific knowledge of vedic granths.

Sir, since you’ve pledged to make Banaras Rashtra-Guru, I would request you to establish an international Vedic University in Banaras for Yoga, Vedic & Upanishad teachings, Ayurveda, Astrology, Sanskrit & our old Granth & Shastras of scientific importance.

Apart from this, one interesting fact is there are so many Vedic Math tricks, with which one can easily do calculations faster than calculator. And we are burdening our students with lame western knowledge only. Useful things from Vedic science should be included in education to make our students genius.
An example of Vedic Math calculation in 2 seconds – www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIo88Rt1JtI

Sir, the foundation of nation building should start from schools. Teachers are limited to subjects only & sometimes themselves are not good human beings!

The essence of 'Rashtra Dharm' is required in our education. It should be blend of:

Modern Education - a well-framed curriculum aided with e-learning, laboratory & other modern teaching aids.

Traditional Education – to shape each child to stand on Moral Values than being Materialistic.

Spiritual Education – to help student to not to lose purpose of life in the midst of fast-life, growth & luxury.

Martial Art Training – for physical education & to help girls to protect themselves from perverts.

There are lacs of schools which don’t have a playground even. Students are caged in classrooms for hours without any physical activity. How can a child grow without any sports activity or physical education. Govt should take necessary steps on this too. Those schools which don’t have playground can use nearby public ground or park.

Today education alone is not the only problem, but daily increasing cost of education is also a big problem, which should be addressed by regulating the private schools. Inclination of students
towards private schools should be deviated towards Government schools by introducing English medium right from the primary class & also the quality of education should be improved in govt. schools for which parents are paying high fees in private schools.

“We have an exam system but not an education system,” said C.N.R. Rao, Scientific Advisor to the former PM Manmohan Singh. Education concentrates more on the theory part and less on practical or research. How would we produce innovators with this system for the development of our country. Government is spending crores on education, it is not enough. We need innovation in the teaching methodology. Education should not be confined to the books. The course material should be trimmed to make it more useful. Unnecessary and outdated chapters of any subject should be removed.

Our govt. should allow FDI in limited fields of studies, like Robotics, Aviation, Avionics, Astronomy, Marine technology, Nano & Ultrafine technology, Disaster Prevention, Creative-Multimedia, Automobile (electric & solar vehicle) etc. to avail new technology to our students.

Though govt. is running scholarship program for poor & disable students but these programs hardly reaching the needy students. People needed to be aware of govt. policies for them.

Govt. should design regular/vocational/professional/research courses for disable students in universities with minimum fees and every college and universities should at least have a care center for disable people.

UGC released a list of 21 fake universities which are playing with the career of students. Only displaying list won’t help, legal action should be taken against them. HRD should have new regulations & set up monitoring body to monitor overall working of the universities.

We hope our government will realize long run impact of these little things & will consider it for the sake of the nation.

Thanks & Regards

Chetan Singh Deora
President
Bharat Nirman Sena
Jodhpur
www.bharatnirmansena.org

CC: Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, Union Minister of HRD

Copy of letter -
http://www.bharatnirmansena.org/templates/tt13/doc/hrd-2014.pdf

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