Manish Sisodia Speaks On Happiness Prog. & Entrepreneurship

    • Pune Times NIE
    • Publish Date: Dec 4 2019 8:24PM
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    • Updated Date: Dec 4 2019 8:30PM
Manish Sisodia Speaks On Happiness Prog. & Entrepreneurship
Founder-director Devyani Mungali in conversation with Deputy CM, Delhi and education minister Manish Sisodia

Interactive Session At Sanskriti, Bhukum

The happiness programme and entrepreneurship mindset curriculum started by Manish Sisodia, Dy. Chief Minister and Education minister (NCT) of Delhi for government schools was the focus of discussion at an interactive session organised at The Sanskriti School, Bhukum on Thursday, November 21. Educators and representatives from various city schools were among those who attended.
Devyani Mungali, founder-director of the school moderated the session. Sisodia shared insights of the programmes and the revolutionary change brought about in the quality of education in Delhi Govt. schools. His recent book 'Shiksha: My Experiments as an education minister' talks about the nitty-gritties of the education system encompassing the role of the administration, budgets for education, relationship between a teacher and student, participation of parents and cultivating the new-age mindset.
When asked about how the transformation was achieved with respect to the quality of government schools, he said that their government, after coming to power in 2015 had allotted 25% of the budget to education. They tried to achieve at least the bare minimum quality of infrastructure and facilities in government schools. "Ideally 6% of GDP should be allotted to the cause of education but is not being done. When there is a rule for fiscal deficit, why can't we have one for educational budget?" he said.
Speaking about the happiness programme, he said that the happiness curriculum was designed by teachers referring to numerous books on wellness education available today. However, only a teacher's manual has been made available and no textbook is provided to the students. "Once a student gets a book, it becomes a syllabus. We have set no limit on the duration of completing the curriculum. A teacher may just do few stories. The idea is not to complete the course, but meet the intent of the course," he said.
A happiness class starts with five minutes of meditation/ mindfulness followed by lessons on value-building and happiness. A period is allotted everyday to classes from Nursery to class VIII.
He pointed out that in order to achieve world class education; teachers need to first understand world-class view. To this end, the government is also focusing on teachers' training by sending them to foreign universities and understanding the different methodologies in teaching, he said.
On replicating the programme in other states, he said, "We need to localise the content of the programme. If Maharashtra wants to introduce the programme, its teachers and state government will have to study and device it accordingly for its students."
On the entrepreneurship mindset curriculum, he underlined the need to develop a mindset among children towards entrepreneurship. He said, "Today if you ask in any class what they want to become when they grow up, 99.9% of students would say they want to take up jobs. If 2.5 lakh students are passing out of schools every year, we also require job providers."
For too long now, India is known as a developing economy. He believes that if India wants to become a developed country, we need to create a pool of job providers. Challenges of brain drain and losing out on the best brains to the country's growth were also pointed by Sisodia. The programme ended with a question-answer session.

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