CONTENT AND CURRICULUM
REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Content and Curriculum
1) Teaching should be confined only to those subjects which
have a bearing on employment.
2) For vocational education there should be a minimum
course of five years.
Name : Shri Phul Singh,
Address : Pala Sahibabad,
Aligarh
Date of Communication : / /
Category : Other Individual letter
1) In BTC practical aspects be given more importance.
Name : Shri Mahendernath Srivastava,
Address : Kendriya Prathmik Vidyalaya,
Ekona, Distt. Beharaich, U.P
Date of Communication : 28/05/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Students should be taught the history of the Nation.
2) Students should be encouraged to conserve the cultural
heritage and secularism.
Name : Shri Rajiv Sidharath, Convenor
Address : Students Coordination Committee
Bhagalpur Uni. Bhagalpur.
Date of Communication : / /
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Moral education should be an integral part of the educa-
tion.
Name : Shri Ghanshyam Singh,
Address : Vill. Dhouri, Distt. Bhagalpur
Bihar
Date of Communication : 18/05/90
Category : Other Individual letter
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Content and Curriculum
1) The syllabi in all the universities in the State be the
same.
Name : Prin. M C Shah, 'Ojas'
Address : Behind Liberty Hotel,
Navrangpura, Ahmedabad- 380009
Date of Communication : 25/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Text books should be work oriented.
2) All subjects should be given equal importance.
Name : Ch. Ramalinga Swamy
Address :
Date of Communication : / /
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Education policy has to revive the right syllabus as per
the class requirements and also the availability of
books in time.
2) Greater stress needs to be laid on vocational training
so that education and career go together.
Name : Shri Gopal Bhargava,
Address : 3C/12, New Rohtak Road,
New Delhi 110 002.
Date of Communication : 17/04/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) There should be twelve subjects in the SSC - (i)
English (ii) Hindi (iii) Regional language (iv)
Mathematics (v) Science (vi) Commerce(vii) Economics
(viii) Politics (including Civics) (ix) Logic (x) Psyc-
hology (xi) Geography and (xii) History.
2) The school should be for six hours from 10:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m.. There should be eight periods each of 40
minutes.
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Content and Curriculum
1) There should be four subjects in the HSC -(i) English,
Hindi or regional language.(ii) Three electives
(i.e. Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics).
Name : Prof. U Shukla,
Address : Type IV, Block 22, Fiat 128,
R C F Colony, Chembur, Bombay
Date of Communication : 14/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Education in working procedures and management
of small and medium scale endustires must be imparted.
2) Computer and technological education must be given
3) More emphasis must be given to moral education.
Name : Shri Rajesh Kumar
Address : 330, Income Tax Colony,
Uttari Pitam Pura, Delhi -34
Date of Communication : 11/07/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Number of text books at primary level should be minimum.
2) The content and standard of text books throughout the
country be uniform.
Name : Shri Satya Narain Rohtagi,
Address : Orgn. Sec. GASTA, 61-BF, 2/2/1
Shankar Gali, Viswas Ngr. DELHI
Date of Communication : \ \
Category : Other Individual letter
1) Semester system be introduced.
Name : Shri Sampat D H,
Address : B-10/2/3, CIDCO Colony, New
Panvel, Distt. Raigad.
Date of Communication : 26/05/90
Category : Other Individual letter
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Content and Curriculum
1) Legal literacy must form part of Education Policy.
2) Legal literacy must inform on various welfare legisla-
tions for the weaker sections.
3) Legal literacy must inform on various developmental
schemes of Government.
4) Legal literacy must inform on availability of legal
aids.
5) Legal literacy must inform on working of the courts, Lok
Adalats etc.
6) Legal literacy must inform on use of social action
litigation.
7) Legal literacy must inform on landmark judgements of the
courts affecting the weaker sections.
8) Legal literacy must inform on structure and functioning
of the government.
9) Legal literacy must inform on functions and powers of
the government officers.
Name : Shri P D Mathew, Director
Address : Legal Aid, Indian Social Inst.
10, Inst. Area, Lodi Rd. Delhi
Date of Communication : 29/05/90
Category : Other Individual letter
1) People should first be taught how to increase agricul-
tural productivity.
2) People should be taught about personal and social hy-
giene.
Name : Shri V S Mathur,
Address : 509 Sector 43B,
Chandigarh
Date of Communication : 11/06/90
Category : Other Individual letter
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Content and Curriculum
1) Vocational courses be introduced.
2) The courses should be designed to create need-based
skills and should be flexible.
3) Infrastructure should be developed before implemention
vocational courses.
4) Type of vocational courses to be introduced in the area
should be decided in consultation with industry and
other employer organisations.
5) The educational content should incorporate higher values
of human life, democracy, secularism, socialism and
world peace.
6) There is a need to make 'culture' as the focal point of
education incorporating moral education, yoga, health
and self learning.
7) The education component should develop an attitude of
composite culture incorporating national view point,
contemporary process of religion, language and national
festivals.
8) Educational compnent should ensure a proper perspective
of form of the nation, diversity and national commit-
ment.
9) There should be uniform pattern of course contents upto
higher secondary.
10) Liberal nationalism be inculcated through education.
11) Pupils should be acquainted with National Heros, men of
literature etc.
12) Education to be linked with environmental and ecology.
The youth should be involved in national construction
activities.
13) Minimum of 200 working days be ensured to the students
as contact days within the college.
Name : Workshop Organised by the
Address : Academic Staff College, Deptt.
of Adult & contd- (Rajasthan)
Date of Communication : 30/06/90
Category : Seminar Proceeding
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Content and Curriculum
1) Commerce be taught at secondary level.
Name : Shri Prem Narayan Acharaya,
Address : Pradesha Adhyakash,
Rajasthan
Date of Communication : 23/05/90
Category : Organisation
1) Vocational education be imparted from class IX to XII.
2) Students should be made to put in manual work.
3) The income earned from the work of the students be
distributed among them.
4) Moral values should be taught in the schools.
Name : Shri Chandeshwar Prasad Singh,
Address : Treasurer, Bihar Sec. Teachers
Association, Jamal Rd., Patna.
Date of Communication : / /
Category : Organisation
1) All industries should project their man-power require-
ments for the next 5 to 7 years and educational institu-
tions should workout curriculum in consultation with
industries to meet those requirements.
2) The generalness at the undergraduate and graduate levels
needs to be reviewed and substituted with technical,
specialised vocational courses.
Name : Navnirman Manch (Gujarat),
Address : TB/4, Vrindavan Estate, 5 bhai
Patel Park, Race C C, Vadodara
Date of Communication : / /
Category : Organisation
1) No effort should be made to vacationalise general
education.
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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Content and Curriculum
2) All vocational courses should have an element of general
education.
3) The first year of 'plustwo' stage should be devoted to
national orientation course.
4) The curriculum may be transformed in items of competen-
cies, activity oriented teaching,individual attention,
appropriate education technology, continuous and com-
prehensive evaluation community participation etc.
5) In order to inclucate the spirit of altruism & humanism,
the educational system should be spiritualised.
Name : Vidya Bharati,
Address : Akhil Bharatiya Sanskrit Gyan
Pariksha, S Bhavan, Kurukshetra
Date of Communication : 27/07/90
Category : Organisation
1) In order to promote national integration and mutual
harmony, the system of education should be Indianised.
2) A national core curriculum should be prepared.
3) In order to inculcate a spirit of altruism and human-
ism, the educational system should be spiritualised.
4) Vocational education should be made more
comprehesive to include all types of occupations and
should be called occupational education.
5) Occupational education stream should be separated from
general education stream.
6) All occupational courses at various stages should in-
clude an appropriate component of general education.
Name : Vidya Bharati Akhil Bharatiya
Address : Shiksha Sansthan, Saraswati
Kunj, Nirala Ngr, Lucknow
Date of Communication : 28/07/90
Category : Organisation
1) Academicians/educationists should be requested to formu-
late the syllabus according to the capability
REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY
Suggestions received on Content and Curriculum
2) The system of education should inculcate spirit of
secularism and commonness of humanity rather than divi-
siveness.
Name : Shri Aurobindo Society,
Address : Ma Mandir, Shri Aurobindo Gram
PO Mehsua, distt. Riva
Date of Communication : 13/05/90
Category : Organisation
1) Our education system be oriented towards cultivating
Indian values.
2) Distortions in the text books of history and other
subjects be corrected.
3) Country's achievements in the field of science and
humanities be taught at all levels of education.
4) The Eternal Bharatiya Values of life be introduced in
the syllabi at all levels of education.
Name : Shri R S Bharadwaj,
Address : General Secretary, Bharitya
Shikshan Mandal, New Delhi
Date of Communication : 12/06/90
Category : Organisation
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