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Latest News |
| 09th
January 2010 / Times of India / Delhi Edition |
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Love heritage, get better marks: CBSE
to children
New Delhi: Now heritage conservation will be a part of
school education. CBSE has asked schools to involve their
students in the protection of monuments in the vicinity
and organize seminars, quizzes, skits and exhibitions
on heritage conservation. According to CBSE, these activities
will make students more sensitive towards heritage and
can also be used for continuous and comprehensive evaluation
of students from up to class X for social science.
In a circular dated January 7, CBSE instructed schools
to administer an oath to all students on January 12, which
will be observed as the Heritage Day. The school community
will have to pledge to respect all monuments, not scribble,
deface or encroach upon any monument and give all possible
help to conserve it. ‘‘The oath may be administered
preferably at a local monument for which local ASI office,
State Archaelogical Department or INTACH may be contacted
by schools,’’ CBSE chairperson Vineet Joshi
stated in the circular. ‘‘The CBSE office
is also writing separately to the heads of these organizations
so that the monuments are opened for visit by the school
students.’’
CBSE has specially emphasised on ‘adopt a heritage
scheme’ as part of a project in social science in
which the students will have to adopt a historical building
in the neighbourhood and create awareness for its preservation.
‘‘They can act as guides for visitors by taking
them around the monument and explain its history, architectural
features, connected stories, ethos etc. They can also
distribute post cards, greeting cards and posters to the
visitors,’’ the circular mentioned.
Making a CD on the monument and collection of archival
sources can also be done. ‘‘Students can show
interviews with visitors, actual caretakers and those
in authority by asking pertinent questions,’’
it added. The CBSE, in fact, are targeting not just the
students but the entire school community with the introduction
of this project. Though this campaign to preserve the
monuments will run in schools across the country, some
Delhi schools have already been involving students in
protecting monuments and now plan to take it further after
the CBSE directive.
Said Bharti Sharma, principal, Amity International School,
Saket, ‘‘Our students have been taking up
the conservation work of monuments for many years now.
But if CBSE is planning to introduce it in all schools,
heritage conservation can become a mass movement.’’
She added, ‘‘It is heartening to know we are
moving in the right direction.’’
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