{"id":3015,"date":"2003-04-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/04\/20\/2003-04-20-minister-promotes-ncert-syllabus\/"},"modified":"2003-04-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-20T12:00:00","slug":"2003-04-20-minister-promotes-ncert-syllabus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/04\/20\/2003-04-20-minister-promotes-ncert-syllabus\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Promotes NCERT Syllabus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/news\/printedition\/150403\/detNAT17.shtml\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>KOLKATA, INDIA, April 14, 2003: A few states are resisting efforts made by HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi to implement reforms in the field of education. Using &#8220;value education&#8221; as a starting point, he initiated what he hopes will stimulate a campaign to encourage the Marxist government of West Bengal to accept the new NCERT curriculum, a Hindu-friendly revision of the national school curriculum by the BJP government. Addressing a meeting organized on Monday by the West Bengal Education and Educationalists&#8217; Association, Joshi set aside Hindutva to promote value education&#8217;s secular goals. Though the Leftist lost their case against the religion-value linkage in the NCERT curriculum, the Bengal government has nevertheless decided not to implement it. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know of any religion which does not say it is wrong to lie or steal. It is a tragedy that the country which taught universal humanism to the whole world does not teach values in its schools,&#8221; Joshi said. Joshi described the Marxists&#8217; turnaround to the NCERT curriculum as &#8220;unfortunate&#8221; and pointed out that a nationwide consultation had preceded its adoption. The suggestion to include value education in the school curriculum, he said, was made by a parliamentary subcommittee and had specifically asked for teaching the main tenets of all religions. Joshi faces a challenge as West Bengal&#8217;s Marxist government has always followed an independent track when it came to deciding on the school curriculum.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceKOLKATA, INDIA, April 14, 2003: A few states are resisting efforts made by HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi to implement,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}