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The Central University of Karnataka (CUK) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kalike, an inaugural of the Tata Trusts, to fortify aboriginal puerility acquisition and physique child-friendly learning ecosystems successful agrarian areas.
The MoU signing connected February 5 was followed by a one-day grooming programme for gram panchayat librarians from Koppal and Yadgir districts, organised by the Department of Education and Training, CUK, successful the assemblage campus.
Speaking connected the occasion, CUK Vice-Chancellor Battu Satyanarayana underlined the value of aboriginal puerility acquisition successful shaping a child’s wide development. He said foundational learning required peculiar attraction arsenic it was analyzable and decisive successful determining aboriginal learning outcomes.
“The National Education Policy has rightly fixed peculiar accent to aboriginal puerility education. Gram Panchayat libraries, anganwadi centres and schools play a captious relation successful this phase. CUK volition widen afloat world and organization enactment to each initiatives nether this MoU,” helium said, adding that module members and students would actively collaborate to alteration agrarian education. He stressed the request for innovative and engaging curricula to make effectual learning ecosystems successful villages. “When acquisition improves, villages develop, contributing to a Viksit Bharat,” helium noted.
Kalike Executive Director Shivakumar D. said Tata Trusts had been moving towards India’s improvement for implicit 120 years, with Kalike focusing chiefly connected foundational learning. He pointed retired that the deficiency of speechmaking worldly beyond textbooks was a large situation astatine the foundational level.
“Libraries tin service arsenic almighty complementary learning spaces. We person developed innovative and engaging books to marque learning absorbing for children,” helium said.
Highlighting the lack of ceremonial grooming for gram panchayat librarians, helium said Kalike had designed a short-term certificate people to heighten room absorption skills and marque agrarian libraries much child-friendly. Two aviator grooming programmes are presently underway, helium added, with plans to grow to different districts based connected outcomes. He besides noted that gram panchayat libraries successful Karnataka were performing amended than those successful galore different States.
CUK Registrar R. R. Biradar observed that mediocre SSLC and PUC results successful the Kalyana Karnataka portion bespeak gaps successful the prime of acquisition and learning ecosystems astatine assorted levels. “Strengthening gram panchayat libraries, anganwadi centres and schools done grooming and capableness gathering is indispensable to code this challenge,” helium said.
Programme Co-ordinator Mayur Pujar explained that the MoU envisaged 4 cardinal areas of collaboration: launching a certificate people connected child-friendly libraries, conducting associated probe connected champion teaching and learning practices, facilitating module speech betwixt Kalike and CUK, and creating cross-learning opportunities for B.Ed and M.Ed students.
A grooming manual for gram panchayat librarians was released astatine the event, which was attended by module members, representatives from Tata Trusts, gram panchayat librarians from Koppal and Yadgir districts, and students.
