State News: Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that Yoga will be developed as a sport and included in the curriculum of school education. A Yoga Commission will be formed in the state for the expansion of Yoga to the masses. Integrating the education of yoga at the school level will help in making education interesting and promoting health of the students. Continuous improvement is being done in the quality and systems of education in the government schools of the state. Various facilities are also being made available to the students. These efforts towards making education interesting will reduce the attraction of the general public towards private schools. The results of the ongoing activities in this direction will be visible to the people of the state soon. The aim of education is to impart knowledge, skills and values of citizenship. Implementation of effective method of imparting moral education along with vocational education in the National Education Policy will be ensured in the state.
Chief Minister Shri Chouhan was addressing the meeting of the Task Force constituted for National Education Policy 2020 held in Mantralaya. Minister of State for School Education (Independent Charge) Shri Inder Singh Parmar, National President of Vidya Bharati Shri Ramakrishna Rao and National General Secretary Shri Ram Aravkar, Principal Secretary School Education Smt. Rashmi Arun Shami, members of the Task Force and subject-experts participated.
Chief Minister Shri Chouhan said that there is a need to establish the esteem of labour among the students. Over the years, the education system has reduced the tendency to work and the sense of respect for labour. The National Education Policy has clear provisions for learning of local skills and important vocational crafts. These activities will help in inculcating in the students the prestige of labor and a sense of respect for the people doing the labour. The task force will have to work seriously in this direction.
Chief Minister Shri Chouhan said that School Chalo Abhiyan should be launched not only for admission in schools but also for admission in classes 5th to 6th and classes 8th to 9th. This activity is necessary to reduce the number of dropouts in class 6 and class 9. Chief Minister Shri Chouhan told the need to make education more and more interesting and activity-oriented. Chief Minister Shri Chouhan said that it is necessary to make special arrangements for teacher training, use of IT in school education, implementation of three language scheme for children and education for children of migrating families.
Shri Ramakrishna Rao, National President, Vidya Bharati suggested that books should be developed linking the global scenario and local conditions, it is necessary to make the thinking of teachers positive and focus on their digital literacy. The education system has to be developed on the basis of Indian culture, valuesof life, traditions and Indian education system. It is necessary to implement activity based learning processes of enterprise and capacity development at the school level, mapping local needs and art resources.
National General Secretary of Vidya Bharati, Shri Ram Aravkar said that the Department of Women, Child Development and School Education will have to work in coordination with each other for early childhood and care and education. It was also told that regarding the provisions of the National Education Policy, there is a need to run a campaign for orientation up to the development block and cluster level and make special efforts to make parents aware of the provisions of the education policy. Shri Aravkar said that traditional games are disappearing. Collecting them and including them in schools will help in making them interesting for the children.
Minister of State (Independent Charge) for School Education, Shri Inder Singh Parmar said that a task force has been constituted for the implementation of National Education Policy 2020 in the state. In this, 4 Framework Groups for State Curriculum and 25 Focus Groups have been constituted at the State level for the development of State Curriculum Framework. There are 24 non-official members and 26 government members in the task force.
In the meeting information was given about the ongoing activities in the direction of early childhood-care and education, basic literacy and knowledge numbers, curriculum and practice of teaching in schools, reducing dropout children, expansion of education, teacher training, equitable and inclusive education, better utilisation of resources and effective management, CM Rise School, vocational education, adult education, online and digital education and setting standards for school education.
