Chalo Taluke - Gujarat Information Bureau

In Focus
October, 2011
By Vineet Kanabar disseminators of information stored in the future, recently undertook
textbooks as well as groom students important and relevant initiatives to
with values with an aim to enable them emphasize its efforts in revamping and
ith the turn of the century
now a decade behind us,
Wthe youth of India is
firmly established as the country's
greatest wealth and to nurture the
ambitions of 60 million and more
people into an age of sustained socio-
economic growth and maturity; the role
played by the teacher takes centre-stage
in the development of this vast cultural
capital. The profession teachers has
always been one that requires them to
go beyond the call of duty as the
to successfully conquer the world. In
today's knowledge and informationrich
age, the teacher is the vanguard of
important aspects of holistic education,
namely, value & moral education and
skill-orientation, and can no longer be
confined to the realms of domain
related knowledge.
With these tenets of quality teaching
in mind, the Indian Institute of Teacher
Education was founded in Gandhinagar
by the government. The state of
Gujarat, awake and alert to the needs of
reforming education. In February 2009,
the Gujarat Educational Innovations
Act was passed by the Gujarat
Legislative Assembly; this Act
underlines the necessity of a drastic
change needed in the education system
as a whole as it contributes to the
development of an innovative concept
of education for children, that takes its
final form in the Children's University,
in cognizance of which an Act was
passed by the Gujarat Legislative
Assembly last June. The problems of
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