Bharat Katha
My name is Rajendra Kumar Awasthi.
I consider myself fortunate to live in Jaisalmer
My maternal home is in the Pali district,
which is in the southern region of Rajasthan,
close to Jodhpur.
However, my education and upbringing
happened in Jaisalmer.
We reside right here in Jaisalmer,
and given all that Jaisalmer has given me,
I think I should give something back to Jaisalmer.
So I began to consider what I can do for Jaisalmer.
First of all, I have tried to get to
know the history of Jaisalmer.
I have contacted the historians
who write about Jaisalmer
or who have some ancient books
in which the history of Jaisalmer is written.
I have studied this history,
and I continue my efforts so that when
I encounter people visiting Jaisalmer,
I can always provide them with accurate information
about that history.
This is my biggest duty.
If I tell anything incorrect to anyone,
nothing will happen to me,
but it will be bad for Jaisalmer,
so my sincere effort is to provide
correct information about Jaisalmer.
Even today, if we are looking
for a problematic aspect in our society,
it is that India's education system
does not have the impact that it should.
For example, the government declared status 6,
which measures the education ratio across different
states to ensure that there is a certain amount of
education in each state.
Some features of this declaration are many
programs on adult education,
education of girls, and the campaign for literacy for all.
The central government imposes these rules,
and then the states and localities have to implement them.
How to do it now is up to the local area.
The central government essentially says,
We have given you this project, have given this program,
have given you this fund".
And then the schools put the program into action.
But if viewed objectively, it's not implemented correctly.
What has happened now is that the central government
has passed a bill that they will not fail anyone,
because pressures of studying are causing kids
to become depressed, and it is affecting them negatively.
But, if you see the reality on the ground,
the smart children are getting depressed as well.
What they think is, look at my classmate
who lives in my neighborhood and is not smart, but I am smart.
His parents do not even make him study.
When he is passing without studying,
and I study hard day and night to pass,
why do I bother to study hard at all?
Thus, this policy has weakened
the backbone of the country at its foundation.
All the way through to the eighth grade, no one can fail.
Now to increase the physical strength of children in schools.
look at the mid-day meal.
Of course children are hungry and need to eat,
but look at the quality of what they're being fed.
There was a big mishap in Bihar sometime back,
with quite a lot of casualties.
What is all this for?
Education used to be the cleanest of sectors,
By adding a midday meal, it's easier to be corrupt then to be honest,
as the whole supply chain works by bribing;
otherwise, things don't get done.
Teachers are also not taking tension.
All they have to do now is grade A, B or C.
Now the child who is a failure gets the C grade
but is still being promoted to the next grade.
If the foundation is weakening, then India is weakening.
Our cultural heritage - what is that?
Pick up any book and read the words of our great men,
that generation born in this country is our heritage.
So those who leave a legacy
will have been influenced by this heritage.
If that generation's foundation is weaker,
how can they hold on to this responsibility?
They can't even sustain themselves. What can they do?
And now the private schools have become as common
as a corner shop.
The Supreme Court had to intervene to contain it.
In the name of capitation fees, or admission fees,
they have added additional fees and charges.
Now people think that they must send their child to
such and such school where the monthly fee is ten thousand rupees,
and only then can their child be called smart.
Even parents whose financial situation is prohibitive
feel compelled to send their children to these schools.
So, on one side, the policy makers are saying
"free education for everyone,"
while on the other side they are creating a culture of compulsive rat race
in order to get a ten-thousand -rupees a-month education.
Private education licenses are being sold like peanuts.
Anyone can, even I, can open a school and get the license.
Just deposit a fee and pledge 25% of admission
so that we can give it to poor children for free.
So what does that mean?
If I have been educated in a government school,
and I do not have any convent school education,
am I an absolute zero?
This is also something to think about.
There hasn't been any effort to educate people about
our Vedas, our Upanishads, which are our ancient concepts and philosophies,
our religious scriptures.
So it is true that the teaching method of Macaulay
has been implemented today in a real sense.
Our Gurukul education system has ended.
That's why we are far behind today.
Whichever way you look at our ancient history,
were we not scientists?
Were our sages and monks not known to be knowers?
What they have already written is the same as
a great deal of research that is being done in many European
countries today, and even in America,
and all the things they are rediscovering from the research.
We are not even trying to learn about these great
many things that actually originated here and are now being lost.
We are denying this information to the children.
If someone talks about the philosophies of Vedas and Shastras,
others politicise it
and with exaggeration label it as a communal expression.
I have recently read somewhere about an author,
maybe she is from America.
She wrote about when Lord Rama, Sita, and Lakshman went to exile.
She wrote that both Lord Rama and Lakshman used to sexually harass Sita.
Is this even comprehensible?
And she said the same thing about Lord Hanuman!
All these things are coming like this from those
who have only used their mind to sell their things.
They have to sell them in any way.
But if someone puts all of this in Indian school textbooks,
and children were told to learn it,
I can guarantee that 95% of the kids will believe it!
And this is because our education system is incompetent
at providing information on our own ancient culture or ancient history.
They can says that Veer Shivaji was a servant of the Mughals
People can write whatever ill-considered, ill-informed things they want.
or that Maharana Pratap bowed in front of him, impetuous.
If these sorts of things were written in lessons,
children would accept them as facts,
because that's the only thing shown to them.
Ancient history is being taught neither in home nor in the schools.
The situation is such today that if there is a discussion
of such a scripture in the house, then children don't take interest.
At the very least, there should be a system to reconsider
our ancient methods,
and if we implement it correctly,
then surely within ten years the face of India will change.
This is absolutely true.
It is not because this subject is of interest to me.
This is true.
You can go deep into it and can see it yourself.
We can also have a lot of debate about
whether this thing is wrong or right.
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