Chromepet: The national executive committee meeting of Vidya Bharati was held at SRDF Vivekananda Vidyalaya from September 21 to 23. More than 200 delegates from all states and Union Territories participated in the meeting. President of Vivekananda Educational Society Shri T Chakravarthi who is also president of Vidya Bharati (South Zone) was the guest of honour.
Vidya Bharati leaders at the national executive meeting
The main focus of the meeting was “Changing Scenario of Education in India and World and how the Indian Education System can Prevail”. Students of the present generation face various challenges, pressure and some students feel hostile too. A child can attain holistic development only if physical, vital, mental and intellectual development also take place along with education. Vidya Bharati schools impart all these virtue to the students and also inculcate values in the children.
One area of the challenge was the emergence of technology. Most students in urban areas have access to the tremendous amount of information from internet. The perception of common people is that these would make the students less dependent on formal educational institutions.
Vidya Bharati currently runs about 23,000 schools across the country with 39,00,000 students and 1,41,000 teachers. The list of 23,000 schools includes 13,000 formal schools and 10,000 Ekal Vidyalayas (single teacher schools). It has been found that no formal schools, either Government or private, function in many tribal areas, Naxal dominated regions, disturbed areas of Jammu & Kashmir, Hilly regions of Uttarakhand, North East states and Jammu & Kashmir. People in these areas are in poverty and have no means to send their children to study. Vidya Bharati has set its ambition to set up schools in these regions so that children from these areas would be benefited. An exhibition by students of SRDF Vivekananda Vidyalaya depicting the tradition of Tamil Nadu was also on display.
