Delhi Govt Ropes in Dalai Lama to Launch School Curriculum
Since there is no correlation between the education being imparted in Delhi schools and a student’s employability, the joblessness has been spreading like a dreaded disease.
By Rakesh Raman
As Delhi Government is facing a tough challenge to save the decaying education in schools, it has roped in an old monk to market its activities as part of the ongoing razzmatazz.
A Tibetan politico-spiritual leader Dalai Lama has agreed to become part of the marketing campaign of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which is aimed to create hype around school education.
“Had the honour of meeting Dalai Lama today. Went to thank him for accepting our invitation to launch the ‘Happiness Curriculum’ in Delhi Govt schools,” tweeted Manish Sisodia who is an education minister in the government.
“Shared with him all the work we have done in developing the ‘Happiness Curriculum’, and how we feel this can have a transformative impact on our society,” Sisodia added. The launch event will take place Monday, July 2.
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According to Sisodia, Dalai Lama feels that teacher training was at the heart of our education system and education needs to have modern knowledge.
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The report observes that the government schools are being run in a totally free-wheeling manner mainly because the school teachers, bureaucrats in education department, politicians in government, and top officers in Delhi administration are clueless about the modern education concepts. They never tried to save the decaying education standards.
Had the honour of meeting His Holiness the Dalai Lama today. Went to thank him for accepting our invitation to launch the ‘Happiness Curriculum’ in Delhi Govt Schools (1/n) pic.twitter.com/yIwR5Rc335
— Manish Sisodia (@msisodia) June 30, 2018
The report finds that since there is no correlation between the education being imparted in schools and a student’s employability, the joblessness has been spreading like a dreaded disease. While the government has failed miserably to bring even an iota of positive change in the education system, it is squandering huge public money in the name of education.
Finally, the report offers a number of remedial measures that the government must take to improve the quality of education in Delhi schools in order to save the lives and careers of millions of students.
By Rakesh Raman, who is a national award-winning journalist and social activist. He is the founder of a humanitarian organization RMN Foundation which is working in diverse areas to help the disadvantaged and distressed people in the society.
Photo courtesy: AAP
