National Education Policy aided character building, said Deputy CM Shukla

Deputy Chief Minister Rajendra Shukla said the National Education Policy helped in character building and personality development, and that value-based education paved the way for benevolence.

Deputy CM inaugurated three-day workshop

Shukla inaugurated a three-day workshop at Awadhesh Pratap Singh University, Rewa, organised under the convenorship of the Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas, New Delhi. He said India’s greatest strength was its knowledge tradition, whose revival had been incorporated into the National Education Policy. He said that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, work of cultural and national importance had been carried out along with development. The policy, he said, set out dimensions of holistic development that would play a role in building character. He added that India was moving toward becoming a Vishwaguru. Students and intellectuals in Rewa would benefit from the workshop’s moral grounding and deep reflection on the Indian knowledge tradition. Atul Kothari, convenor of the Nyas, said the new education policy included the Indian knowledge tradition and the Panchkosh principle so that holistic development was possible. He said students needed to study this and decide their role, and that concentration was the basic foundation of education. Vice-Chancellor Prof. Rajendra Kumar Kudaria said the Nyas led the Shiksha Bachao Abhiyan and was holding its first event at the university. He said students and intellectuals could benefit from the workshop in line with society’s needs. A souvenir and a resolution paper were released at the workshop. Those present included Mangawan MLA Er. Narendra Prajapati, Om Sharma, Prof. Sunil Tiwari, Registrar Surendra Singh Parihar, Ajay Tiwari, university faculty, students and intellectuals.