75 years of Buniyadi Talim (basic education) celebrated in Wardah

Updated on: Monday, November 19, 2012

Samdhong Rinpoche, former president of Tibetan government in exile, addressing the opening session of the two-day Nai Talim conference at Wardha on Saturday said, commercialization of education should be stopped. Education must be concerned with an individual's livelihood and morality. Education must impart techniques that would ensure employment for the student. In fact, Nai Talim is such type of education system whose foundation was laid by Gandhiji in 1937."

Nai Talim is celebrating 75 years of Buniyadi Talim (basic education), which was introduced by Mahatma Gandhi. On October 1937, an all India educational conference was organized at Wardha under Gandhi's leadership. At this conference, he had announced plans to replace Macaulay's education by what he called Buniyadi Shiksha at school level, as an organic component of Nai Talim.

To commemorate the occasion, more than 500 activists from educational field are participating at the two-day conference to discuss new direction for education. Expressing his views on Nai Talim, president of AIFRTE Dr Anil Sadgopal said, "Nai Talim covered the entire spectrum of education. The Gandhian vision of education at all levels needs to be conceived as an organic whole for bringing about social transformation."

T Karunakaran, ex-director of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Rural Industrialization (MGIRI), Wardha, said, "Today's education system is completely commercial and Nai Talim is the only replacement in this scenario."

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