Report
on
All India Seminar
On Empowerment of Tribal and Rural Bharat
(09-10 Dec 2007)
Venue: Chinmaya Mission, Lodhi Road, New Delhi.
Basic Education Session
  1430 hrs to 1730 hrs
Chairman:
Dr. J.S. Rajput (Former Charman NCERT)
Other Panelist Speakers:
Sh. D.N. Batra (Upadhyaksha, Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nayaas)
Smt. Manju Shrivastav (Ex. Professor)
Dr. S.N. Rath (Dean, Social Science, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Research & Social Action, Hyderabad)
1. Sh. D.N. Batra
 
  • He highlighted the wrong use of a large number of words and even objected to the translation of word Bharat to India.
  • Giving right to information, employement opportunities and security to the rural population is of utmost importantce.
  • We need to take into account the actual position of the villages in terms of primary education and analize thier condition.
  • Many schools donot have blackboards, proper infrasturture, drinking water and toilets.
  • He highlighted the aspects of education that are literacy, health, equality, self-sufficiency, behaviour, patriotism etc.
  • Literacy without Sanskar(Values) is dangerous. And Ekal system of education takes care of that.
  • We must develop the quality of co-existence within fellow human beings.
2.
Smt. Manju Shrivastav
  • Made a beautiful Power Point Presentation on the total Ekal System
  • By the year 2007 almost 23,189 ekal schools can be seen on the ekal website.
  • Ekal believes in the motto-1 teacher, 1 school, 1 village
  • USP of ekal was :-
  • functional literacy,
  • overall development,
  • transperancy,
  • self sufficient model
  • low cost model,
  • Involvement of local people.
  • Nearly seven lakh children have been benefited and around 7000 full time volunteers are involved in this movement.
3.
Dr. S.N. Rath
  • He explained anthropology and expressed that roots of the humanity are in forests.
  • He quoted how the Britishers divided the Indian society into tribes and castes and found the easiest way to rule Indians.
  • He emphasised that all Indians have the same root and these divisions were done with certain motives behind them.
  • There has been more stress on to find out the differences than to find the commonalities between the Indians staying in variuos parts of India.
  • It is unfortunate that even after Independence we continue to fall in these traps laid by the British, self styled historians who were planted with certain motives.
4.
Mr. Balchand Joshi
  • There is no govt policy to provide education in villages, education cess collected is not used for the right purpose.
  • Learning through creative experimentation. 1 laptop per child so that they can explore and develop on thier own.
  • Low cost laptops have been developed so that it is affordable to the masses.
  • This organisation tried in a school with experiment in Maharashtra. to understand the power of education. The concept of child ownership needs to be introduced.
  • Solar panels and ecosystems are being built for the benefit of these rural areas.
5. Prof. J.S. Rajput
 
  • To bring about empowerment in India, we need to make sure that the Bharatiya Sanskriti is maintained.
  • We are not linking Indians to India's culture, heritage and India's tradition of learning.
  • Learning to live together is the most important form of education.
  • Education should lead to social and economic development of Bharat.
  • He explained the sorry state of affairs in the elementary education and said that dreams of one Laptop per child is very very distant dream.
  • He highlighted that even if Govt schools come to each and every village, there is a need to have Ekal schools there as well because the education with Sanskars is coming from them.
Sh. P.L. Chaturvedi, Smt. Manju ji and Sh. J.S. Rajput clarified various answers.
The session ended with Question Answer ssession which was very interesting followed by presentation of Momentoes to the speakers on the dias.
MR. SUBHASH CHANDRA WITH SPEEKERS
IN BASIC EDUCATION SESSION
MS. MANJU SHREE IN
BASIC EDUCATION SESSION
DR. J. S. RAJPUT ADDRESSING
BASIC EDUCATION SESSION
     

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