PM Modi stated the brand new new Education Policy is making a futuristic schooling system. (File)

Rajkot, Gujarat:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at present stated that by the brand new National Education Policy (NEP), a forward-looking and futuristic schooling system was being created in India for the primary time, and accused the previous governments of not doing something to regain the nation’s misplaced glory resulting from their “slave mentality”.

PM Modi, who was addressing the seventy fifth ‘Amrut Mahotsav’ of Shree Swaminarayan Gurukul at Rajkot by way of video hyperlink, additionally stated the variety of premier academic establishments like IITs, IIMs and medical schools within the nation elevated considerably after 2014, the yr when his authorities got here to energy on the Centre for the primary time.

Hailing India’s historic ‘gurukul’ (residential education) system of schooling, the Prime Minister stated information has been the best function of life within the nation, and added that saints and non secular leaders helped revive the nation’s misplaced glory within the subject of schooling.

“You know very well that for India’s bright future, our existing education policy and institutes have a big role to play. Therefore, in this ‘amrit kaal’ of independence, whether it is about country’s educational infrastructure or policy, we are engaged in work at every level at a fast pace,” he stated.

The variety of premier academic establishments like IITs, IIITs, IIMs and AIIMS is growing considerably. After 2014, the variety of medical schools has seen greater than 65 per cent rise, PM Modi stated.

“Through the new education policy, the country is for the first time preparing an education system which is forward-looking and futuristic,” he added.

When the nation turned unbiased, it was our duty to revive India’s historic glory and our nice satisfaction within the subject of schooling, he stated.

“But under the pressure of the slave mentality, the governments did not move in that direction. And in some matters they went in the reverse direction. In these circumstances, once again our saints and acharyas took up the task of fulfilling this duty towards the country. Swaminarayan Gurukul is a living example of this opportunity,” he stated.

PM Modi stated that India confirmed the way in which to the world by finishing up analysis within the fields starting from ‘atma tattva’ to ‘paramatma tattva’, from spirituality to ayurveda, from social science to photo voltaic science, from maths to metallurgy, and from zero to infinity. Women students debated with their males counterparts at a time when the time period ‘gender equality’ was not even born, he stated.

“India showed light to humanity in those dark times, offering rays from which the journey of the modern world and modern science started,” he stated.

The gurukuls of these intervals paved the way in which for the world by permitting ladies students like Gargi and Maitreyi to be concerned in debates there, he stated.

Knowledge has been the best function of life in India. Therefore, within the interval when different international locations have been recognized with kingdoms and royal clans, India was recognized by its gurukuls, he stated.

“Our gurukuls have been like a garden of equality, affection and service for centuries. Universities like Nalanda and Takshashila used to be synonymous with the global glory of this gurukul tradition of India. Discovery and research – they were part of India’s way of life. Today, the diversity and cultural prosperity we see in the country are results of the same discoveries and innovations,” he stated.

The preferrred residents and youths raised on a greater schooling system will work to understand the dream of a developed India in 2047 when India celebrates a century of independence.

The efforts of establishments like Sri Swaminarayan Gurukul will definitely be very important, he stated.

PM Modi urged Swaminarayan Gurukul to ship 100-150 volunteers to north-eastern states for 15 days yearly and meet youths there, introduce themselves and write about them.
 

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