The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh will hold an all-India conference of educationists and academicians in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh on December 13-14 to prepare a blueprint for a programme to refashion India's education system to bring it in line with what it believes are Indian values.
The conference is being organised jointly by Dinanath Batra's Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti and Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas, the RSS affiliates active on the front of education. The two-day deliberations are expected to generate a roadmap to “correct” school curricula, according to a senior office-bearer of the RSS.
Last fortnight, 22 representatives of 11 RSS-affiliated organisations met with Human Resources Development Minister Smriti Irani to apprise her of its wishlist regarding an overhaul of the country's education system. The meeting, which was held at Madhya Pradesh Bhawan in Delhi is considered significant as it was attended by all the three joint general secretaries of the RSS ‒ Suresh Soni, Krishna Gopal and Dattatreya Hosabale.
Nationwide consultation
These meetings and the upcoming Ujjain conference of the RSS-affiliated educationists are being held in the wake of the Human Resource Development Minister's recent announcement of the BJP government’s intention to start a nationwide consultation in January on a new education policy. While making this announcement in September, Irani said that consultations would be made even at gram panchayat level in order to seek feedback from all sections of society.
Various RSS affiliates in the field of education, including Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti and Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas, have already started creating structures at district level to ensure “large scale participation” of the stakeholders in the ensuing consultations of the HRD Ministry, said the Sangh office-bearer.
The government is also contemplating the establishment of an education commission to complete the consultation process and suggest a new education policy for the country, a senior official in the HRD Ministry said, adding that the suggestion for the countrywide consultation had come from the RSS.
Indentifying experts
Besides planning an elaborate exercise to effect changes in the education system and curriculum, the RSS has also launched a silent drive to identify experts who could staff various committees of the HRD Ministry as well as the higher educational institutions it runs.
According to the ministry official, there are several vacancies still pending at central universities, IITs and IIMs, which would be filled on the recommendations of the RSS.
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The conference is being organised jointly by Dinanath Batra's Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti and Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas, the RSS affiliates active on the front of education. The two-day deliberations are expected to generate a roadmap to “correct” school curricula, according to a senior office-bearer of the RSS.
Last fortnight, 22 representatives of 11 RSS-affiliated organisations met with Human Resources Development Minister Smriti Irani to apprise her of its wishlist regarding an overhaul of the country's education system. The meeting, which was held at Madhya Pradesh Bhawan in Delhi is considered significant as it was attended by all the three joint general secretaries of the RSS ‒ Suresh Soni, Krishna Gopal and Dattatreya Hosabale.
Nationwide consultation
These meetings and the upcoming Ujjain conference of the RSS-affiliated educationists are being held in the wake of the Human Resource Development Minister's recent announcement of the BJP government’s intention to start a nationwide consultation in January on a new education policy. While making this announcement in September, Irani said that consultations would be made even at gram panchayat level in order to seek feedback from all sections of society.
Various RSS affiliates in the field of education, including Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti and Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas, have already started creating structures at district level to ensure “large scale participation” of the stakeholders in the ensuing consultations of the HRD Ministry, said the Sangh office-bearer.
The government is also contemplating the establishment of an education commission to complete the consultation process and suggest a new education policy for the country, a senior official in the HRD Ministry said, adding that the suggestion for the countrywide consultation had come from the RSS.
Indentifying experts
Besides planning an elaborate exercise to effect changes in the education system and curriculum, the RSS has also launched a silent drive to identify experts who could staff various committees of the HRD Ministry as well as the higher educational institutions it runs.
According to the ministry official, there are several vacancies still pending at central universities, IITs and IIMs, which would be filled on the recommendations of the RSS.
