Form integrity clubs, CBSE tells schools

Updated on: Wednesday, November 23, 2011

After suggesting that schools organize yearlong anti-corruption activities, CBSE now wants them to form 'integrity clubs' to inculcate moral values in children.

The Board has advised schools to sensitize students and make them aware of life skills to counter excessive influence of television, the internet and cellphones. "The integrity clubs are designed as community groups for cultivating human values among students by organising games, activities and workshops in schools," stated the CBSE circular issued to schools earlier this month. "Due to excessive influence of electronic media, the internet and mobile phones, nuclear family system and rapidly growing urbanization, children are more exposed to negative values," the circular added.

These integrity clubs (IC) have to be set up on the basis of a model followed by the Airports Authority of India. Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan has already adopted this practice in some of its schools. According to the model, IC is set up in the school as a 'community group' consisting of students from classes VI to IX in the age group of 11-16 years. ICs should work on inculcating 12 basic values, which include integrity, love, patriotism, compassion, tolerance, secularism, unity, simplicity and honesty.

The club will work on spreading values through activities like sharing anecdotes, narrating stories and reciting poems on the 12 values. The activities will also include group discussions, music, drama and painting. Earlier this year, CBSE had advised schools to encourage students in secondary classes to develop comics on instances where people stood up against corruption and exploitation like Mahatma Gandhi and his Dandi March. As part of an unsaid crusade against corruption, the Board also suggested that students could create jingles on the importance of vigilance

Times of India

Form integrity clubs, CBSE tells schools

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