CBSE dancing to saffron tunes
CBSE has asked students to participate in a national ‘expression series’ on Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya
KOCHI: Close on the heels of the controversial address by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to school students on Teacher’s Day, the CBSE has asked students from class I to class XII to participate in a national ‘expression series’ on Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, one of the founder leaders of Bharatiya Jan Sangh, the forerunner of the BJP.
One of the chief ideologues of the Sangh Parivar, Upadhyaya was also the chief proponent of integral humanism that led to the contentious uniform civil code espoused by the BJP.
The academic body has asked the students to submit entries by Monday. They can be in the form of essay, poem, one-act plays, scripts, drawings, paintings, sketches etc and can be sent online, offline and through WhatsApp. The winners will be announced on Thursday, the birthday of Deendayal Upadhyaya.
The CBSE circular in this regard to the schools says that “CBSE is committed to the holistic development of students and strongly feels that students of today must be made aware of the selfless and valiant services of the women and men who have served the nation. The present-day India has been possible only because several women and men of yesteryear worked incessantly towards nation-building.”
Students have been divided into three categories classes I-V, classes VI-VIII and classes IX-XII for the contest. Entries can be submitted individually, in a pair of two students or as part of a school team with not more than five students in the team.
Entries can be submitted in any of the 22 scheduled languages or in English. From each category of entries, 30 best entries (10 individual entries, 10 pair entries, five team entries and five entries of differently-abled students) will be chosen. The selected entries will receive a cash prize of '5,000 each along with a certificate of merit, the CBSE says.