Gandhiji believed in life skills-based education: Niranjanaradhya

Academician V.P. Niranjanaradhya has mentioned that Mahatma Gandhi believed in imparting life skill-based schooling, which offers college students with a chance to study and work, and solely such schooling might help in making them autonomous.

He was talking after being honoured with an endowment service award instituted by Bellad Krushi Haagu Shishana Pratishthana at a perform organised at Karnatak Vidyavardhak Sangha in Dharwad on Monday (March 23).

Mr. Niranjanaradhya mentioned that the D.N. Kothari Commission had really helpful making uniform college schooling obtainable to all, and that is talked about even in the Preamble. However, it’s ironic that authorities colleges, which have been known as ‘cradles of the Constitution’, are being uncared for, he mentioned.

“It is regrettable that education is getting commercialised. A total of 62,000 teacher posts in the State are vacant. It is a tragedy that nearly one lakh students have failed in the Kannada language in the SSLC examination. Although government school teachers are efficient and talented, they are not getting time to teach as they were burdened with non-teaching works,” he mentioned.

Conferring the award, Basavaraj Gurikar, nationwide president of Akhila Bharat Prathamiksa Shala Okkuta, praised Mr. Niranjanaradhya for his efforts in the direction of saving authorities colleges.

Chandrakanth Bellad, president of the sangha, briefed attendees concerning the aims of the endowment. Presiding over the perform, vice-president Sanjiv Kulkarni mentioned that in accordance with the worldwide yardsticks, college schooling in India is in a pathetic state. On the pretext of building magnet colleges, the federal government is closing down authorities colleges, he alleged. Shankar Halagatti made introductory remarks.