After
students of UP government schools are done enjoying their summer
vacations, they will learn about the various Gurus from the Nath sect
such as Baba Gorakhnath, Baba Gambhirnath and Swami Pranavananda.
Chapters on these personalities have been added to the textbooks of
classes 6, 7 and 8.
Bhupendra
Narayan Singh, basic Shiksha Adhikari, Gorakhpur, said “The
biographies of Baba Gorakhnath, Baba Gambhirnath and Swami
Pranavananda, martyrs Bandhu Singh, Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil etc.
Will be taught to students. Guru Gorakhnath is part of the curriculum
of Class 6 book ‘Mahan Vyaktitwaʼ (great personalities)”.
“More
than 8,36,975 books of Class 1 to Class 8 have reached us and the
process of sending them to block resource centres and schools has
been initiated,” he said. He further said that the personalities
such as Bandhu Singh, Alha Udal and Rani Awantibai have also been
included in the curriculum.
Initially,
there were 32 chapters in the ‘Mahan Vyaktitwaʼ book which now
have been increased to 38. Children will also get the opportunity to
learn about Netaji
Subhash
Chandra Bose, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhayay and
former president APJ Abdul Kalam.
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