New Delhi: A day after Gujarat’s BJP government announced plans to introduce the Bhagavad Gita in schools, Karnataka government, also ruled by BJP, is all set to introduce Bhagwad Gita in the school syllabus on the line of Gujarat, home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reports said on Saturday.
Gujarat Education Minister Jitu Vaghani has recently announced that with the aim of introducing Indian Knowledge System (IKS) in government schools, values and principles of Bhagwad Gita will be included in the curriculum from June 2022. He said in the state assembly that school students should “have an understanding of Gita and its shlokas”.
Primary and Secondary Education Minister BC Nagesh said teaching the scripture in state-run schools will be the part of “moral science” lessons, IANS reported.
Nagesh stated that the demand is growing for inclusion of moral science into the syllabus of children as it has a good impact. In Gujarat, they are planning to implement it in three phases. In the first phase they have introduced Bhagwad Gita, he said.
“I will discuss with C M Bommai in the coming days for implementation of the moral science subject in the syllabus for school children,” he said.
“If everything is agreed upon, we will consult education experts and decide on the aspects and syllabus of the moral science subject. The duration of the class will also be fixed. Why Bhagwad Gita should not be taught to the children?” Minister Nagesh questioned.
However, Congress has maintained that the present syllabus has been prepared by resourceful persons and there is no need to include anything now.
D K Shivakumar, state Congress president, has stated that there are lessons on Ramayana, Bhagwad Gita and other holy books in the syllabus. There is no need to glorify anything now, he opined.
“I have opposed the National Education Policy (NEP) in the beginning. The present syllabus includes everything. There is no necessity to include anything new to it. There is nothing left for BJP to take credit in the issue. Our Late Chief Minister Kengal Hanumanthaiah had distributed copies of the Bhagwad Gita for Rs 2 earlier,” he said.
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