CONTENT AND CURRICULUM
REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Content and Curriculum
1) Major Indian cultural heritage and values should not
only be reflected in the curriculum, content and process
but also in the management of education.
2) There should be uniformity at the national level in the
curriculum structure and system of elementary and
secondary education.
Name : Shri C.K. Nagar, Director
Address : State Instt. of Edun. Research
& Training, Udaipur (Rajsthan)
Date of Communication : 21/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Programmes for work culture be made obligatory for school and
college going students as a part of national youth policy.
Name : Shri R.S. Trivedi, Chairman
Address : H.S.E.B., Capital Project
Building, Ahmedabad
Date of Communication : 14/04/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) There should be an All India syllabus.
2) The university-Syllabus throughout the country should
be unform.
Name : Prof. A. Datta,
Address : C1/204 Janakpuri,
New Delhi
Date of Communication : 09/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) The scheme of Socially Useful Productive Work be
scrapped.
Name : Shri Ramkrishan Ram Saxena,
Address : Shop No.5, Guru Bagh,
Varanasi
Date of Communication : 11/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Home science be introduced as a compulsory subject
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Content and Curriculum.
Name : Mrs. Suresh,
Address : Old Kent Road,
Manglore.
Date of Communication : / /
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Same standard of education be maintained in all schools.
Name : Mr. Madan Mohan Malik,
Address : 774, Sector12, R.K. Puram,
New Delhi
Date of Communication : 21/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Due importance be given to physical education.
Name : Shri Vishwa Mitra,
Address : 84/Sector 10, Panchkula
(Haryana)
Date of Communication : 08/05/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Stress should not be on bookish knowledge but on
practical aspects of life.
2) Manual labour should form part of curricula.
3) Study of Home Science, fine arts, music etc.
should be compulsory for girls.
4) Agriculture should be made compulsory in school
curricula.
Name : Miss Kavita Kapoor,
Address : Vill. Nalapani, P O Tapovan
Ashram, Dehra Dun
Date of Communication : 13/02/90
Category : Other Individual letter
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Content and Curriculum
1) All schools should be known as Shiksha Bhavans and
should have uniform pattern of education.
2) Education system be flexible so that a child studies
according to his capacity.
3) Education should not be wholly text-book oriented.
Name : Shri Sashi Bhatnagar,
Address : P-23, RHV Sector 7,
New Bombay
Date of Communication : / /
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Primary education should not be confined to
textbooks but should be vocationalised.
Name : Shri Baldev Singh, Lecturer
Address : Rajasthan Teachers Sangh,
Sri Ganganagar (Rajashtan)
Date of Communication : 20/05/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) The biographies of revolutionaries be incorporated in
the curriculum.
Name : Shri Rajesh Singhvi,
Address : Students Federation of India,
452 Moksh Marg, Jaipur
Date of Communication : 19/05/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Teaching of grammar should be given due importance
Name : Shri Satya dev Pathak,
Address : Asstt. Teacher Pvt. Sch. Sarkahi
Visheshvar Ganj, Bahrid
Date of Communication : 07/04/90
Category : Other Individual letter
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Content and Curriculum
1) Methods to improve agricultural productivity be
included in the literacy curriculum.
Name : Shri V S Mathur
Address : 1509, Sector 43-B,
Chandigarh
Date of Communication : 10/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Village Education Committee should be free to follow
flexible education system suitable to the needs of the
village.
Name : Shri K Muniandi,
Address : Gandhiniketan Ashram,
Madurai,
Date of Communication : 12/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Indian Cultural heritage should form part of
curriculum.
2) Achievements in modern science and technology be given
due importance in the curriculum.
3) Education of a child should be closely linked with the
world of work.
Name : Shri B.P. Joshi,
Address : Rajasthan Academy of Education
Science and Culture, Udaipur
Date of Communication : 04/07/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Text books should not be prescribed; only syllabus be
prescribed.
Name : Prof. G C Shivahare,
Address : University of Rajasthan,
Jaipur
Date of Communication : 19/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Content and Curriculum
1) There should be a uniform syllabi for a subject in all
universities.
Name : Shri S N Swami,
Address : Near Naya Kuan,
Bikaner
Date of Communication : 24/05/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) There should be uniform system of education throughout
the country.
Name : Dr C Mahadevan,
Address : 41 Devi Illam, State Bank
Colony, Nagercoil
Date of Communication : 11/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) State language, Hindi, History and Geography should be
taught upto 8th standard only.
Name : Dr. M S Kirloskar,
Address : Dadhankeri,
Dharwad
Date of Communication, : 28/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Map reading should be an integral part of school
curriculam.
Name : Shri R C Mahajan,
Address : Karuna Sadan, Sector 11-B,
Chandigarh - 160 011.
Date of Communication : 23/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Sanskrit and ancient Indian sciences should from part
of curriculam.
2) Humanities should be given equal importance as science.
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Content and Curriculum
Name : Shri C.R. Swamy,
Address : E4/206 Arora Colony,
Bhopal, M.P
Date of Communication : 27/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) The generalness at the under-graduate and graduate
levels needs to be reviewed and substituted with.
technical, specialised, vocational courses.
Name : Dr Nikhil Desai,
Address : Navnirman Manch TB/4,Vrindavan:
Estate, Race Course, Vadodara
Date of Communication : 30/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Content and Curriculum
1) There is an urgency to introduce value education but it
cannot be imparted through hourly lessons.
Name : Shri Onkar Chand, Secretary
Address : Lajpat Rai Bhawan, Sector 15-B
Chandigarh
Date of Communication : 16/06/90
Category : Organisation
1) Uniform system of education and syllabii be ensured.
2) Teh weight of school bag be reduced.
Name : Shri Dwarka Prasad Patodia,
Address : Bharat Kalyan Manch, Radha Press,
993/3 Gandhi Ngr. N. Delhi
Date of Communication : 27/05/90
Category : Organisation
1) Environmental study should form part of education
curriculum.
Name : Shri D K Sinha,
Address : Indian Science Cong. Assoc.,
Dr. Biresh Guha St., Calcutta
Date of Communication : 07/06/90
Category : Organisation
1) To acquaint students with basics of Indian culture
writings of great Indian authors be included in the
syllabii.
2) Teaching of spiritualism, yoga, meditation etc. should
form part of curriculam.
3) Life stories of great men should be included in text
books.
4) Knowledge of Indian culture and tradition should be
included in the teacher training course curriculam.
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Content and Curriculum
Name : Shri R S Bharadwaj
Address : Bhartiya Shikhsn Mandal,
K-30 Green Park Main, N. Deihl
Date of Communication : 09/07/90
Category : Organisation
1) The curriculum should be problem oriented.
2) Curriculum should be based on local environment and the
challanges posed by it.
3 The proposed integrated science courses be tried out on
a pilot basis first before universal implementation.
4) The concept of co-curricular programmes be introduced
at the secondary stage.
5) A system of automatically updating curriculum, teaching
learning material, evaluation system, methodology
educational data etc. be developed.
6) Students should be encouraged to be more creative.
7) Core elements of Indian Culture be included in the
"curriculum"
8) Education system should be flexible to provide for
learning while earning.
9) Health education be introduced at all levels.
10) Population education be introduced at all levels.
Name : Council of Boards of School
Address : Education in India, 23, Ashiana
Aptarment, Pitampura, Delhi-34
Date of Communication : 17/07/90
Category : Organisation
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Content and Curriculum
1) The teacher-training curriculam should have practical
and useful mental health components.
2) Emphasis should be laid on sports, cultural
orientation, language development and appreciation of
arts.
Name : Shri Firoz Ahmed,
Address : 2170, Ahata Kaley Sahab,
Balimaran, Delhi -6
Date of Communication : 11/06/90
Category : Newspaper Articles
1) Uniform syllabus be followed in all schools.
Name : Shri J.P. Gureja,
Address : C-379, Sheikh Sarai, Phase-I,
Pocket-C, New Delhi-17.
Date of Communication : 11/06/90
Category : Newspaper Articles
1) Education has to keep pace with science studies
especially advancement in hightech areas.
Name : Shri M.S. Pradhan,
Address : The Statesman,
Date of Communication : 23/05/90
Category : Newspaper Articles
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