to the reply given to Unstarred Question
No. 3004/14.3.2000 and state :
(a) whether the Justice Verma Committee has recommended for making Human Rights and Duties as compulsory subject at the school and higher levels of education;
(b) if so, the details of other recommendations made by the
Committee; and
(c) the progress made so far in the implementation of the
said recommendations?
THE MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (DR. MURLI MANOHAR JOSHI)
(a) to (c) : A statement is laid on the Table of the
House.
STATEMENT REFFERRED TO IN REPLY TO THE LOK SABHA STARRED
QUESTION NO. 713 FOR 16.05.2000 ASKED BY S/SHRI SIMRANJIT
SINGH MANN AND RAMDAS ATHAWALE REGARDING HUMAN REIGHTS AND
DUTIES.
(a) & (b) : The Justice Verma Committee has recommended
that there is need for a fundamental transformation in the
direction and approach to curricula for teaching fundamental
Duties in schools and teacher education institutions. The
Committee has also made recommendations for incorporating
Fundamental Duties in the courses/programmes for higher &
professional education.
The other recommendations of the Committee include
ge4nerating awareness and consciousness of Fundamental
duties, optimizing benefits from the existing
schemes/programmes, protection and improvement for
environment, elimination of gender bias, re-orienting
teacher education programmes, ensuring the responsibilities
of people’s representative from Panchayats to Parliament,
obligation of Public Administration and civil Servants,
administration of Justice, role of business, industry and
media in creating awareness of the need to appreciate and
internalize the concept and practice of Fundamental Duties.
The Committee has further recommended that the current Human
rights Education Initiative of the UGC should be referred to
as ‘Human rights and Fundamental duties Education
Initiative’.
(c) : The following steps have beent aken for implementation of the recommendations:
- The report of the Committee has been circulated to
concerned Ministries/Depatments/Organisations of the
Government of India, and to the State/UT Governments for
necessary action at their end.
- Printing of the Preamble and Article 51a in NCERT publications.
- NCERT has decided to incorporate Fundamental Duties in new/revised curriculum framework.
- Modules of fundamental Rights and National Values have been made available to Teacher Education Institutions.
- Decided that the Human Rights Education Scheme of University Grants commission be renamed as “Human Rights and Duties Education.
- Seventeen Universities identified for inclusion of Post-
Graduate Degree/Diploma/Certificate Courses on Human Rights
and Duties Education.
- Curriculum Development Committee has been constituted
by UGC to prepare model curriculum in various courses in
Human Rights and Duties Education.
- The Justice Verma Committee Report has also been sent
to the Vice-Chancellors of all the Universities for
necessary action.