More than 1,000 university teachers across the country are being equipped with a working understanding of Indian traditions, culture and way of life, to enable them to teach relevant courses on Indian knowledge systems at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels from the next academic session.
The training is being imparted, keeping in mind the University Grants Commission’s plans to make compulsory two credit courses giving an overview of Indian culture and traditions in the first years of both the UG and PG programmes in varsities across the country, sources in the Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) division of the Ministry of Education told The Hindu. In fact, UGC intends to train 15 lakh teachers in IKS over the next two years.
