Union Minister of Education and Skill Development Shri Dharmendra Pradhan has launched a textbook on `Introduction to Indian Knowledge Systems: Concepts and Applications” on Monday. The occasion was organised by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Present within the occasion had been Shri Subhas Sarkar, Minister of State for Education, Shri Okay Sanjay Murthy, Secretary Higher Education, Shri A.D Sahasrabudhe, AICTE Chairman and representatives from AICTE, IKS Division and Ministry of Education.
The Minister stated that the Indian schooling system is being decolonised beneath the management of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. “While we adopt the good things from our ancient past, we must also be mindful of the problems in our society and build a future which creates synergy between knowledge from the past and contemporary issues,” he stated.
The guide goals to fill within the hole for providing a required course on IKS, not too long ago mandated by AICTE. It additionally goals to align with the National Education Policy (NEP)2020 . Although the guide has been primarily developed to be used by the Engineering establishments, the construction and the contents lend itself simply to deal with the requirement in different University methods (Liberal Arts, Medicine, Science and Management) for such a guide. The newly launched IKS textbook goals to allow the scholars to bridge the divide between conventional and fashionable schooling methods by offering college students with a chance to reconnect with the previous, construct holistic scientific mood and put it to use for finishing up multidisciplinary analysis and innovation.The textbook curriculum is developed by Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore in affiliation with VYASA Yoga Institute, Bengaluru, and Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth, Ernakulam. It is written by Prof. B Mahadevan, IIM Bangalore and co-authored by Assoc Prof. Vinayak Rajat Bhat, Chanakya University, Bengaluru, and Nagendra Pavana R N, with the varsity of Vedic Knowledge Systems at Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth, Ernakulam.
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