We Should Have an India Centric Curriculum: Joshi

Jan 12: "Even UNESCO has fully supported value-based education to produce peace-loving citizens with equal respect for all, irrespective of caste, creed and religion," Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi said while affirming that that the school books should be "Indo-centric" and valued-based, essential for making children grow as peace-loving and non-violent members of the society. He was speaking to a group of students and teachers who came to express solidarity with the government decision to revise the NCERT textbooks.

He said Indian Children should be aware of Indian traditions, culture and history while a number of foreign countries wanted to know about the same. He cited the example that Norway recently expressed its desire to set up an Indology Centre to know about India's ancient history and culture which have been proved to be much older than the Harappan.