Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi in his address to the Governors of State, Vice Chancellors, and Directors of Universities and Higher Education Institutions called upon the students, teachers and Head of the Institutions/ Universities to participate and contribute to India’s ambitious and transformative agenda of Viksit Bharat@2047. Viksit Bharat @2047 is a vision to make India a developed nation by 2047, the 100th year of independence. The vision encompasses various aspects of development, including economic growth, social progress, environmental sustainability, and good governance. In this context, a brainstorming session on Ideas for IGNOU@2047 was organized by the Innovation Club@IGNOU.
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About the Workshop
About the Workshop
In continuation of this topic, the Innovation Club@IGNOU organized an Ideation Workshop on the related theme “Empowered Indians– Education, Health, Sports, Nari Shakti (Women's Empowerment), Caring Society Culture” on January 29, 2024, at 02:30 PM in blended mode. The points for Ideation were as follows:
1. How can the Indians be empowered in terms of Education, Health, Sports, Nari Shakti, Caring Society and Environment, Culture, Good Health and Wellbeing, etc.?
2. How can youth be empowered with Skills and Education and creating more employment opportunities?
3. How can you contribute in this regard to make Viksit Bharat@2047.
At the Outset, Dr. Sujata Santosh, Assistant Director, NCIDE welcomed all the participants of the Innovation Club meeting. She introduced the topic for discussion and mentioned that the session was in continuation to the brainstorming session organized by the Innovation Club@IGNOU on Ideas for IGNOU@2047. Dr. Sharma, Director, NCIDE said that that the Hon’ble Prime Minister had a discussion with the Governors of the State and the Vice Chancellors of the Universities on how the universities can contribute towards Viksit Bharat@2047. IGNOU had prepared a vision document and listed certain goals. He said that it was important to have a discussion on the initiatives in education, health, women empowerment, sports, culture can be taken up at IGNOU for contributing to the idea of a Viksit Bharat@2047.
Explore the ideas generated during the Workshop
Explore the ideas generated during the Workshop
In the discussion, the participants presented their views and gave various suggestions in this regard.
Empowered Indians hold the key in the progress towards a Viksit Bharat. Education aimed at holistic development including the physical, mental, social, moral, and spiritual development of an individual would play an important role in achieving this goal.
The education system should teach aspects such as how to reduce conflict, how to address challenges and prepare the youth to handle the challenges they face in life.
Technology, education, environmental sustainability, and psychological well-being are some of the areas that should be focused on to prepare the students for a Viksit Bharat.
In rural areas, where health facilities are not available, community wise activities can be planned. Health awareness session and health check-up camps can be organised.
Capacity building and empowerment of the villagers may be done by training students to be geriatric care assistants or home health assistants or nurses through available programmes.
Alumni may be roped in to do counselling of the students during examinations. Students of MA psychology may be involved in the form of a group, club, or forum to support other students during examination.
Need to rethink the concept of development and the parameters or benchmarks used to define the developed or developing country such as economic development, GDP, social index, cultural freedom, and education.
Apart from imparting knowledge and skills, education should be focused at spiritual, moral, and behavioural aspects, thus encouraging creativity and innovation in the youth. As recommended by NEP 2020, education should be aimed at holistic development of the individual, this should be integrated into the education system.
The focus should be on utilisation of the ICT for programme design, delivery, and providing academic support to the students.
Career counselling should be conducted for the benefit of the learners once they have completed a programme. A helpline may be set up to help the learners and provide them any kind of related information.
Apart from career counselling, life skills, moral education, ethics and value system should be strengthened to create a safe and caring society.
Awareness or training programmes about digital safety, cyber-crimes should be conducted for the benefit of all in today’s digital age.
Women empowerment is also crucial for achieving the set goals of Viksit Bharat. Various programmes for sensitisation, generating awareness and capacity building on issues of women health and mental health should be taken up, especially for the employees of IGNOU.
The workshop was highly interactive and appreciated by all the members. The meeting ended with thanks to all.
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