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18/05/22 08:45 AM IST

Malviya Mission

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  • 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).
Source-PIB

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