Lok Sabha Question No. 4694 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-22
Subject: Indianisation of Education System
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Anubhav Mohanty

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION AND LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4694 TO BE ANSWERED ON 22 ND  JULY 2019

## Indianisation of Education System

## 4694. SHRI ANUBHAV MOHANTY:

Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government is planning to enhance the ambit of the Right to Education Act, if so, the details thereof; and
- (b) whether  the  Government  has  any  proposal  of  Indianizing  the  education  system  giving  more exposure about the ancient/medieval/modern history of India rather than focusing of the history of the invaders and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI RAMESH POKHRIYAL 'NISHANK')

(a) The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE), Act, 2009 provides that every child  of  the  age  of  six  to  fourteen  years  shall  have  the  right  to  free  and  compulsory  education  in  a neighbourhood  school  till  the  completion  of  his  or  her  elementary  education  (upto  class  VIII).  The Department of School Education and Literacy has launched an Integrated Scheme for School Education - Samagra Shiksha from 2018-19, which subsumes the three erstwhile Centrally Sponsored Schemes of Sarva  Shiksha  Abhiyan  (SSA),  Rashtriya  Madhyamik  Shiksha  Abhiyan  (RMSA)  and  Teacher Education  (TE).  The  new  integrated  scheme  envisages  school  education  as  a  continuum  from  preschool to senior secondary level and aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education.

The  major  objectives  of  the  Samagra  Shiksha  are  provisioning  of  quality  education  and enhancing  learning  outcomes  of  students,  bridging  social  and  gender  gaps  in  schools  education, ensuring  equity  and  inclusion  at  all  levels  of  school  education,  ensuring  minimum  standards  in schooling, promoting vocationalisation of education, supporting States and UTs in implementation of Right  of  Children  to  Free  and  Compulsory  Education  (RTE)  Act,  2009  and  strengthening  and up-gradation  of  State  Council  of  Education  Research  and  Training  (SCERTs)/State  Institutes  of Education and District Institute for Education and Training (DIETs).

(b) The content related to ancient/medieval/modern history of India is already part of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) history textbooks. Examples are mentioned below:

- (i) Textbook in History for Class VI,  Our Pasts-I ( Relates to ancient Indian history)
- (ii) Textbook in History for Class VII,  Our Pasts-II ( Relates to medieval Indian history)
- (iii) Textbook in History for Class VIII,  Our Pasts-III ( Relates to modern Indian history)
- (iv) Textbook in History for Class IX and X: India and the Contemporary World-I & II   (Relate to history of the contemporary world locating India within that larger history)
- (v) Textbook in History for Class XI: Themes in World History (Relates to important themes of world history)
- (vi) Textbook in History for Class XII: Themes in Indian History, Part I (Relates to important themes of ancient history of India)
- (vii) Textbook in History for Class XII: Themes in Indian History, Part II (Relates to important themes of medieval  history of India)
- (viii) Textbook in History for Class XII: Themes in Indian History, Part III (Relates to important themes of modern  history of India)

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