CBSE join hands with Ramakrishna Mission

In a bid to instill good values in young students, the Central Board of Secondary Education has joined hands with Ramakrishna Mission, founded by Swami Vivekananda to initiate Value Education Programme for classes VII, VIII and IX. The initiative is part of Swami Vivekananda’s 150th Birth Anniversary celebrations.

The mission has developed as a comprehensive three-year programme based on Swami Vivekananda’s message of infinite potential in every individual which can be manifested as excellence in every walk of life. Value education in context to CBSE refers to explicit formulations of the ways in which students are expected to be changed by the modern educative process.

The programme consists of 48 sessions of 45 minutes each. Ramakrishna Mission will train the teachers nominated by their schools for this purpose and facilitate them with every tool and material required during the training period. In the first year, 700 teachers from about 350 schools of CBSE (Delhi & NCR region) will be oriented followed by similar batches in subsequent years.

Vineet Joshi, chairman CBSE said, ‘Each one of us have infinite possibilities. Empowering youth with value education will help them create possibilities, work on the solution to the problems of life, have the courage to face challenges, adapt to the environment, live, learn and explore the frontiers of knowledge. The main purpose of value education is to form a significant successful society. He also added that schools should link Value Education with their Career Counseling Sessions so that the counselors can be propagator of values.’