Minister Pradhan pitched in with an idea of a “Malviya Mission” to develop enabling ecosystem across the country for teacher education/faculty development.
Malviya Mission
To set up nation-wide ecosystem for faculty development, the Education Minister said that a multi-dimensional approach to upskill faculty aligned with the challenges of the 21st century India must be adopted.
Mentioning the focus of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 on teacher education. Mr Pradhan called for a multidisciplinary approach towards teacher education with focus on Indian values, languages, knowledge, ethos, and traditions.
The Education Minister launched a textbook on 'Introduction to Indian Knowledge Systems: Concepts and Applications".
The book primarily is for the engineering students, but it will address the requirement in other university systems (Liberal Arts, Medicine, Science and Management).
