New Delhi: The Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has launched the textbook on the Indian Knowledge System (IKS) in the launch event held today on May 16, 2022 at AICTE auditorium. This launch event was broadcasted from 4.30 PM onwards by the All India Council for Technical Education(AICTE) on the AICTE Media youtube channel.
Earlier, the All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE) had invited institutes to nominate 2 to 3 members of the faculty team along with 20 to 30 students from their respective colleges/institutes to participate in this textbook launch event.
Along with Hon'ble Union Education Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Education for State Dr. Subhas Sarkar was also present for the launch of the textbook on Indian Knowledge System. The author, co-authors and several senior dignitaries were present for this textbook launch. The event also included a special book-signing ceremony by Professor Mahadevan.
In 2018, the Technical Education regulator, AICTE introduced a mandatory course on Indian Knowledge Systems under the model curriculum. However, no authentic textbook on IKS was there, thus a project proposal on “Curriculum Development and Preparation of Textbook for a course on Indian Knowledge System” was received from the Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore through the Education Ministry.
"The textbook on Indian Knowledge System (IKS) has been designed to be used as the primary reference material for teaching "Universal Human Values and Indian Knowledge System" courses which were introduced by the AICTE in its model curriculum of 2018," the technical education regulator said in the statement.
This IKS textbook has been written by IIM Bangalore Professor B Mahadevan in association with Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Ernakulam and SVYASA, Bangalore.
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