Chief Minister Rekha Gupta with Education Minister Ashish Sood (second from proper) on the launch occasion on Thursday. | Photo Credit: ANI
Speaking on the launch occasion at Bharat Mandapam, Ms. Gupta mentioned, “The new curricula will put together college students to put in writing India’s future.”
She mentioned the curricula have been designed with the intention of selling nation-building.
The new curricula will change the earlier Aam Aadmi Party authorities’s Deshbhakti programme (launched in 2021), the Happiness curriculum (2018), and the Entrepreneurship Mindset (2019).
In a briefing on NEEEV, Education Minister Ashish Sood, who was additionally current on the occasion, mentioned, “This pioneering initiative for college kids from Class 8 to 12 is designed to remodel schooling by embedding a spirit of innovation, self-reliance, and entrepreneurship from a younger age.”
Rashtraneeti, which shall be taught from KG to Class 12, will embrace the research of governance, policymaking, management, and civic duty, mentioned Mr. Sood. Science of Living, which shall be taught from Classes 1 to 12, is rooted in Indian information methods and can promote holistic well being by way of yoga, ayurveda, and meditation.
The curricula have a grade-wise construction.
For occasion, within the Rashtraneeti curriculum, college students within the ‘foundational stage’ (KG to Class 2) shall be taught the fundamentals of civic consciousness. Those within the ‘preparatory stage’ (Classes 3 to five) shall be taught civic duty. Students within the ‘center stage’ (Classes 6 to eight) shall be taught about civic engagement and management, whereas these within the ‘secondary stage’ (Classes 9 to 12) will find out about strategic pondering and governance, an official mentioned.
The four-stage educational construction in class is a part of the reforms launched beneath the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
Similarly, within the Science of Living curriculum, foundational courses embrace recognising feelings and studying social behaviour by way of puppet reveals, songs, and storytelling. Students within the center courses will study moral reasoning, civic duty, and non secular inquiry, based on the official.
Under NEEEV, which is geared toward instructing about start-ups, amongst others, a start-up competitors shall be performed for college kids from Classes 9 to 12, with prize cash of ₹20,000. The classroom coaching may even embrace foundational entrepreneurial studying with design pondering and interactive actions.
‘Support college students’
Ms. Gupta urged faculties to give attention to retaining college students in greater courses. “Results received’t enhance if college students are expelled in Classes 9 and 11. They needs to be inspired and supported,” she mentioned.
Stressing that her precedence is to enhance schooling relatively than announce big-ticket tasks, the CM mentioned, “One flyover much less could be constructed, however faculties should be improved.” She assured that authorities faculties wouldn’t face shortages of assets or infrastructure, together with bathrooms, laboratories, playgrounds, and different amenities.
Published – September 19, 2025 01:44 am IST
