NEW DELHI, Sep 2: The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) has started new post-graduate diploma courses which focus on Hindu studies, Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata and ‘Bharatiya Jnana Parampara’. About 500 applications have been received and the course is expected to begin soon, a senior official said on Friday. The IGNCA, which functions under the Ministry of Culture, is offering 11 courses, including four new courses – Hindu Studies, Bharatiya Jnana Parampara, Indian Literature and Museology […]
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There is never a dull moment with the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre. The National Institute of Open Schooling, called an autonomous body but under the Union education ministry, is introducing 15 courses on Indian knowledge and heritage for levels equivalent to Classes III, V and VIII in 100
madrasas. This is to execute the aims of the National Education Policy, and the courses will be extended to 500
madrasas. The lessons will include studies of the Sanskrit language, the Bhagavad Gita, the
Ramayana, the Maheshwara Sutras derived from Panini and so on. Yoga as well as science lessons from the Vedas in the conservation of land, air and water, the origin of creation and other topics would be taught together with vocational skills ranging from making beds to organic farming, including cow rearing and cleaning cowsheds, using
UP: Madrasas Protest Move to Make Teaching of Bhagavad Gita, Ramayana Mandatory
The rule for madrasas has been mandated as part of the new curriculum on ancient Indian knowledge and heritage in the New Education Policy (NEP).
Muslim children read the Koran at a madrasa or religious school on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan in the northern Indian city of Mathura August 23, 2009. Photo: Reuters/K. K. Arora
Religion06/Mar/2021
Lucknow: The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) is facing stiff opposition by autonomous madrasas in Uttar Pradesh for its decision to make the teaching of Hindu epics like Bhagavad Gita and Ramayana mandatory in 100 autonomous madrasas.