TO
10.01.2014
Dr.
Manmohan Singh
THE PRIME MINISTER OF
INDIA
The
Prime Minister's Office, 'PMO',
South
Block, Raisina Hill,
New
Delhi.
India-110011.
Telephone:
91-11-23012312.
Fax:
91-11-23019545 / 91-11-23016857.
TO
DR.
M. MANGAPATI PALLAM RAJU
Minister
of Human Resource Development
Government
of India
Shastri
Bhawan
New
Delhi – 110001
Phone
: 91-11-23383936-/44
Fax : 011-23381355,23384271
Email
: dhe-mhrd@nic.in
TO
The chief minister and
THE EDUCATION
MINISTER
GOVERNMENT OF NCT OF
DELHI
NEW DELHI
TO
THE EDUCATION
MINISTER
STATES OF INDIA
Respected Sir,
SUB:
PROPOSAL FOR AMENDING THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION WITH INCLUSION OF LIVING VALUES
COMPRISING OF SPIRITUAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, HEALTH AND SOCIAL (VOCATIONAL) ASPECTS
IN EDUCATION AND IMPLEMENT THESE ASPECTS OF LIVING
VALUES AS COMPULSORY SUBJECTS IN SCHOOLS (AT ALL LEVELS FROM 1st TO 12th STANDARD) AND
UNIVERSITIES.
On behalf of every Citizen
of India, I hereby submitting this request to include Values in Education in
the Constitution of India and also to implement those values at all levels in
Education from 1st std to University level.
“We
want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is
increased, the intellect is expanded and by which one can stand on one’s own
feet.”
-
Swami Vivekananda
Based on the report and
recommendations of the Education Commission (1964–1966), the government of
Prime Minister Smt.Indira Gandhi announced the first National Policy on Education
in 1968, which called for a "radical restructuring" and equalise
educational opportunities in order to achieve national integration and greater
cultural and economic development. The policy had emphasized on values in
education. Even in 2012-13 the Education Department had taken steps to include
value education in our education system by introducing Value education kits and
training modules for teachers.
Considering the current
scenario of degradation of values in society, it is highly recommended by great
philosophers and religious leaders like Swami Vivekananda, Sri Swami Sivananda,
to include values in education which are totally free from religious teachings
so that every individual who are going to lead this nation are able to imbibe values in his/her life helping both as an
individual as well as the whole society.
In our Indian constitution,
Religious teaching was not included as part of education imparted by Government
schools and colleges taking into consideration that it is everyone’s right to
follow religion of their own interest. But now, it is the need of the society to include not Religious teachings but living values in our Constitution,
so that the education system will have compulsory subjects on living values.
By not imparting these living
values based education, the society faces difficulties like:
1.
There is degradation of spiritual values
2.
The adolescents and adults do not get
guidance to deal with the sudden spurt of changes taking place physically, mentally
and socially
3.
Students and people in general are not aware
of the prevention strategies for Psycho-Somatic and chronic diseases, which
comprises of 85 to 90% of diseases which can very well be prevented just by
proper awareness.
4.
Students coming out of the university are not
well equipped spiritually, emotionally and employment-wise to deal with the
competition based society
5.
People in general are not at all aware of basics
of spiritual, psychological, biological and social (vocational) aspects making
them stumbling in all these aspects till their end of life.
The aspects of Living Values
which are to be taught in all levels of
schools and colleges, making them compulsory at all levels, should be:
1.
SPIRITUAL
:
The knowledge that Human beings are not just physical but also of mind and
intellect. Development of spiritual values, basically an understanding of how
the mind and intellect can be maintained stable with positive thoughts, to be
trained from a very young age in schools and at the same time revising and
understanding in a practical way by constant study of values practiced by great
leaders and philanthropist even in Universities, enables the person to be in
touch with the values throughout their life, creating inspirations to retain
those values at any cost in varying situation of life.
2.
PSYCHOLOGICAL: The
modern day depression which is major cause of suicides and depression problems
amongst our younger and older generations at home causing a concern to the
society can very well be controlled by the knowledge of function of mind and
intellect, and how the psychological, biological and social factors influence
personality. Communication skills can be enhanced thereby reduce stress and increase
understanding by the knowledge of function of mind like how the mind-brain
processes the information that is available to the senses by association, generalization,
distortion and defence mechanisms.
3.
HEALTH: Teaching
to lead a healthy life by educating them with preventive methods, knowledge of
psychosomatic diseases – how mind affects the body, will keep the future
generation free from chronic diseases to a greater extent creating a healthy
society.
4.
SOCIAL
(VOCATIONAL): If the education is not just book –oriented
but more connected with practical life connecting the students with
work-oriented education like the education system implemented and dreamt by great
leaders like Mahatma Gandhiji (in the name of Nayee Taleem), Vinoba Bhave, then
the Living Values can be implanted in a very practical way to deal with the
society. For the sake of employment generation and improving the economy to
International levels of efficiency & productivity India needs ESD (Entrepreneurship
Skills Development) and VET (Vocational Education & Training).
In
the EU Enterprise Skills Development starts from class 1. In India we should
start at least from class 8 or higher secondary school. Whether it is self
employed or to work for others this quality is very important. Concentrate on
Skills, Vocational Training and Employment generation projects: India
(population 1210 million) has 9,500 VET (Vocational Education & Training)
centers. Switzerland (population 8 million) has 6,000. Germany (population 82
million) has 100,000. Japan (population 129 million) has 150,000; China
(population 1350 million) has 500,000. Ever since Lord McCauley closed down all
the Gurukul Centres in India in 1835, we are short of Skill and Vocational
building Infrastructure in the country since then.
The Institutions like
Brahmakumaris World spiritual Godly University, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Ramakrishna
Mission, Maharishi Vedathri Institutes, SIGFA solutions, Psychologists from
Universities, i-watch, Physicians, National
Knowledge Commission Reports and other organizations who are already
contributing in the education field by conducting research and courses on
Spiritual Values in Education, Psychology, Naturopathy, Yoga-PsychoNeurobics,
Memory Development, Vocational skills can be approached for preparing syllabus
for students from school level to University levels, to meet the current demand
of Living Values in Education, in our society.
On behalf of every Citizen
of this Country, wish this proposal becomes a reality creating a GOLDEN BHARAT.
Thanking you,
Yours faithfully,
AZEEM DANA
DME., PDRAC., B.Sc.
Psychology, PG in MDPN, M.Sc. Counselling Psychology
Aadhar ID: 696993411742
A-1729, Basement,
Green Field Colony,
Faridabad, Haryana –
121 010
Ph: 08285984476
(Delhi)
09710994796 (Chennai)
Addressed
to: Prime Minister of India, Minister of HRD, Chief Minister of Delhi and
Education Minister of Delhi
ANNEXURE
: SYLLABUS
The syllabus for Schools and
Colleges can include following aspects:
SPIRITUAL
ASPECTS (based on Spiritual Values taught by BrahmaKumaris World Spiritual
University)
Spiritual values in
education to become free from
1.
lust,
2.
anger,
3.
greed,
4.
attachment and
5.
ego
and
to imbibe qualities like:
1.
peace,
2.
love,
3.
happiness,
4.
purity,
5.
knowledge along with
6.
following spiritual powers:
1.
to face the situations,
2.
to co-operate with others and make others
cooperative with love,
3.
to pack up unwanted thoughts and desires,
4.
to accept our own self and others as they are
free from vengeance ie. to accommodate the weakness of others,
5.
to discriminate between truth and false,
6.
to tolerate to handle all situation in a
stable manner not getting into depression and suicidal,
7.
to withdraw the senses to control thoughts,
words and actions,
8.
to mould the self according to the situations
and use them at the right time and right place and
These qualities are applied
in practical life at various instances like:
1. Perform all actions being
free from pain or suffering free from attachment but with love and deep
interest
2. to give regard to all and
receive respect
3. Being calm and quiet in
difficult situation to have clarity in thought
4. Looking at everyone as
brothers and sisters (like it is said in our national pledge)
5. Perform selfless service
and think of the welfare of others along with the welfare of the self
6. Maintain a routine in
life for meditation or self introspection, exercise, proper diet, maintaining
good relationships
11. The importance of
cleanliness of intellect (able to concentrate,focus) and heart along with
honesty of heart to be nurtured from younger days showing role models.
12. To involve in healthy
competition rather than creating jealousy and hatred becoming part of the rat
race.
13. Respecting others by
accepting them for what they are and being considerate for them with the
understanding that their Psycho Bio Social factors have influenced them to
become what they are.
14. Taking responsibility
for action but at the same time holding to values and become a role model for
others
15. Being co-operative in
carrying out group task expressing and accepting others ideas at the same time
following the best suitable views
16. Creating a balance in
all walks of life being free from stress
19. To create unity in
diversity, imbibing virtues in life
20. Be economical in
thoughts, words and actions along with generosity
21. to learn from the
mistakes and not to repeat them
22. to develop an unlimited
intellect from being just limited to I, me and mine.
23. To be obedient-humble,
stable and faithful to relate to one another with love.
25. Finding the importance
of time, value and meaning of life
26. to have love for self
and others
27. to develop the
speciality available within
32. to deal with situations
effectively being easy, light in thoughts, speech, actions, relationships
38. Perform to the level
best at all times irrespective of the outcome of the effort.
40. The benefit of being
moderate in food, drink and clothes.
41. To make the intellect
alert and far sighted to achieve success in every action undertaken.
43. to develop faith in self
44. to develop the power of
discrimination - understanding to decide (based on decision making skills and
concentration) and create the power of tolerance
45. Become royal in
character and habits
46. Purity in mind, control
over thoughts, words and actions, influence of company
47. to learn from the past
and have plans-visions of future
49. to become generous in
heart to uplift others
50. the power of unity
51. the power to change
habits, imbibe new habits
52. to think before taking
any action
54. power of positive
thoughts
55. finish inferiority and
superiority complex, to look at the specialities within and in others.
56. to merge the weaknesses
and defects within
PSYCHOLOGICAL
ASPECTS (based on Psychology, National Knowledge Commission Reports and SIGFA
PsychoNeurobics and Memory Development)
1.Maintain a routine in life
for meditation or self introspection, exercise, proper diet, maintaining good
relationships
2. providing more choices of
good personalities from childhood days to select a good role model for them to
grow and thereby protecting every child against following a bad role model.
3. To deal with the fear, frustration and confusion created by
the sudden growth of physical body and educating them appropriately about the
growth pattern and the short time infatuations so that they are protected from
taking a wrong path at a very young age.
4. Managing time between
school and home to deal effectively with the existing environment.Creating a
balance in all walks of life being free from stress.
5. Respecting others by
accepting them for what they are and being considerate for them with the
understanding that their Psycho social factors have influenced them to become
they are.
6. Being co-operative in
carrying out group task expressing and accepting others ideas at the same time
following the best suitable views
7. Curriculum reform remains
an important issue in almost all schools. School education must be made more
relevant to the lives of children. There is need to move away from
rote-learning to understanding concepts, good comprehension and communication
skills and learning how to access knowledge independently
8. To develop creativity,
problem solving and
communication-assertive skills
9. Finding the importance of
time, value and meaning of life
10. to develop the
speciality available within
11. How to take rest and the
importance of sleep and its effect on body
12. How to deal with
laziness, depression and complicated situation providing more choices instead
of getting stuck to one
13. To deal with
relationship issues amongst newly married
14. To train mind on
concentration,focus, attention
15. How to change
behaviour,habits - methods to identify the cause for the habits are to be
taught and hence able to relearn the habit in right way.
16. knowing about the
personality types like introverted, extroverted and even other types to deal with people in a
better way with proper understanding and empathy.
17. how to analyse a
situation
18. Memory Development
HEALTH
ASPECTS (based on Psychology and SIGFA
PsychoNeurobics and Memory Development)
1. Maintain a routine in
life for meditation or self introspection, exercise, proper diet, maintaining
good relationships
2. To deal with the fear, frustration and confusion created by
the sudden growth of physical body and educating them appropriately about the growth
pattern and the short time infatuations so that they are protected from taking
a wrong path at a very young age.
3. How to take rest and the
importance of sleep and its effect on body
4. to educate about the ill
effects on Health, mind, society due to smoking, drinking and other
misbehaviours
5. The effect of thoughts
over body and awareness of psychosomatic diseases
6. Prevention methods and
healthy practice to avoid chronic diseases
7. Education on Growing up
of a child to prevent malnutrition
8. The benefit of being
moderate in food, drink and clothes.
9. How health of the body is
connected with the health of the mind
10.Naturopathy and awareness
of Ayurveda,Siddha and other alternative therapies and medicines
SOCIAL
(VOCATIONAL) ASPECTS (based on i-watch
by Mr.Krishan Khanna, Knowledge Initiatives in the Eleventh Five Year Plan and Psychology
)
1.
Entrepreneurship Skill Development (ESD) and Vocational
Education Training (VET) to be given for skills building and relevant education
on Agriculture, Manufacturing and Service oriented industry.
2.
To
reduce law and order problems
3.
To reduce the incidences of HIV and AIDS
4.
To improve harmony amongst the people
5.
To improve personal hygiene
6.
To improve productivity
7.
To reduce pollution and improve Environment
8.
Bridging the gap for employment generation
9.
Reducing poverty
10. Increasing
the availability of trained and skilled manpower
11. Human
resources development for employment generation starts from the school system
and then flows into vocational education and other skills building streams
including higher and technical education and finally adult and life-long
learning.
12. To
remain safe from the environment or the bad influence of the company or peers
13. Creating
opportunities to feel success with healthy competition
