06-18-2004, 04:15 AM
<b>NCERT panel replaces Joshiâs appointees with Arjun's team of four</b>
Friday June 18 2004 00:32 IST
NEW DELHI: The HRD Ministry has replaced Murli Manohar Joshi's appointees in NCERT's highest decision-making body, its executive committee. Ministry sources said the tenure of the four nominees chosen by Joshi was coming to an end.
The old team was relatively low-profile, giving outgoing NCERT director J.S. Rajput a lot of leeway to run the institution as he chose to.
In comparison, HRD Minister Arjun Singh has brought in people who are renowned for their work, though one or two them are known to have strong Left leanings. The list of four nominees to be part of the NCERT executive committee announced on Thursday includes renowned Hindi poet Chandrakant Deotale.
Next on the list is Professor Mridula Mukherjee of the department of history at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Mukherjee's views on ``communalisation of education'' are known and she has written quite a few articles on the subject.
Anita Rampal, another nominee, was one of the scholars who ran into trouble with the University Grants Commission in 2001. She was among research scholars recruited under a UGC scheme to promote research excellence in the country but their services were terminated just when their promotion was due. Rampal is currently a professor with the department of education, Delhi University. Her papers on primary education have been widely appreciated.
Probably, the most path breaking work in education has been done by the fourth nominee, Dr M.P.Parameswaran of the Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad. He helped spread a science movement throughout Kerala and has subsequently worked towards the Total Literacy Programme.
The four nominees will assume an important role because all other executive committee members - the minister, minister of state, education secretary of the Union Government apart from the director, joint director, financial advisor, secretary and three other faculty members of NCERT - are ex-officio members.
Friday June 18 2004 00:32 IST
NEW DELHI: The HRD Ministry has replaced Murli Manohar Joshi's appointees in NCERT's highest decision-making body, its executive committee. Ministry sources said the tenure of the four nominees chosen by Joshi was coming to an end.
The old team was relatively low-profile, giving outgoing NCERT director J.S. Rajput a lot of leeway to run the institution as he chose to.
In comparison, HRD Minister Arjun Singh has brought in people who are renowned for their work, though one or two them are known to have strong Left leanings. The list of four nominees to be part of the NCERT executive committee announced on Thursday includes renowned Hindi poet Chandrakant Deotale.
Next on the list is Professor Mridula Mukherjee of the department of history at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Mukherjee's views on ``communalisation of education'' are known and she has written quite a few articles on the subject.
Anita Rampal, another nominee, was one of the scholars who ran into trouble with the University Grants Commission in 2001. She was among research scholars recruited under a UGC scheme to promote research excellence in the country but their services were terminated just when their promotion was due. Rampal is currently a professor with the department of education, Delhi University. Her papers on primary education have been widely appreciated.
Probably, the most path breaking work in education has been done by the fourth nominee, Dr M.P.Parameswaran of the Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad. He helped spread a science movement throughout Kerala and has subsequently worked towards the Total Literacy Programme.
The four nominees will assume an important role because all other executive committee members - the minister, minister of state, education secretary of the Union Government apart from the director, joint director, financial advisor, secretary and three other faculty members of NCERT - are ex-officio members.