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Academician V.P. Niranjanaradhya has said that Mahatma Gandhi believed successful imparting beingness skill-based education, which provides students with an accidental to larn and work, and lone specified acquisition tin assistance successful making them aforesaid reliant.
He was speaking aft being honoured with an endowment work grant instituted by Bellad Krushi Haagu Shishana Pratishthana astatine a relation organised astatine Karnatak Vidyavardhak Sangha successful Dharwad connected Monday (March 23).
Mr. Niranjanaradhya said that the D.N. Kothari Commission had recommended making azygous schoolhouse acquisition disposable to all, and this is mentioned adjacent successful the Preamble. However, it is ironic that authorities schools, which were referred to arsenic ‘cradles of the Constitution’, are being neglected, helium said.
“It is regrettable that acquisition is getting commercialised. A full of 62,000 teacher posts successful the State are vacant. It is simply a calamity that astir 1 lakh students person failed successful the Kannada connection successful the SSLC examination. Although authorities schoolhouse teachers are businesslike and talented, they are not getting clip to thatch arsenic they were burdened with non-teaching works,” helium said.
Conferring the award, Basavaraj Gurikar, nationalist president of Akhila Bharat Prathamiksa Shala Okkuta, praised Mr. Niranjanaradhya for his efforts towards redeeming authorities schools.
Chandrakanth Bellad, president of the sangha, briefed attendees astir the objectives of the endowment. Presiding implicit the function, vice-president Sanjiv Kulkarni said that according to the planetary yardsticks, schoolhouse acquisition successful India is successful a pathetic state. On the pretext of establishing magnet schools, the authorities is closing down authorities schools, helium alleged. Shankar Halagatti made introductory remarks.
