Bengal to include Syama Prasad Mookerjee's life in curriculum next academic year
West Bengal has decided to add Syama Prasad Mookerjee's contributions to curricula from the next academic year. The move anchors a wider 125th anniversary plan spanning publications, a memorial and restoration of his ancestral home.
Syama Prasad Mookerjee's contributions will be included in West Bengal's curriculum from school to university level from the next academic year, Suvendu Adhikari said on Thursday after the first meeting of a special committee set up to plan and implement programmes for the Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder's 125th birth anniversary.
Adhikari said the state government will also publish books on Mookerjee, build a 125-foot statue with a museum and other facilities at Eco Park, and restore his ancestral home at Jirat in Hooghly district, where a library and museum will be set up.
"The School Education Department will include Syama Prasad Mookerjee's contribution to the country, his far-reaching and development-oriented vision in independent India, and his constructive works in the syllabus from school to university levels," Adhikari said. He said this would help make the next generation aware of Mookerjee and would be implemented from the next academic year.
As part of the anniversary programmes, the government will also publish a book on Mookerjee. "An organisation with which Syama Prasad Mookerjee was once associated has already prepared a book through the efforts of (BJP leader) Tathagata Roy. We want to publish the book jointly with them. They will now convey their views on the matter," Adhikari said.
He said the state Library Department had also been asked to publish a comprehensive biography of Mookerjee in Bengali and English. "I hope the work will be completed within this year," he said.
Adhikari said the government had decided to erect a 125-foot statue of Mookerjee at Eco Park and that the bhoomi pujan for the project would be held there. The Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation briefed the special committee on Thursday about the proposed statue, museum and other facilities planned at the site. "We have asked them to start the work so that we can inaugurate it on July 6 next year," Adhikari said.
July 6 is Mookerjee's birth anniversary. He strongly opposed Jammu and Kashmir's special status under Article 370, entered Kashmir in 1953 without a permit, was arrested, and died in detention. The decisions taken at the first committee meeting cover curriculum changes, new publications, the Eco Park memorial project and the restoration of Mookerjee's ancestral home as part of the state's plans to mark his 125th birth anniversary.
Syama Prasad Mookerjee's contributions will be included in West Bengal's curriculum from school to university level from the next academic year, Suvendu Adhikari said on Thursday after the first meeting of a special committee set up to plan and implement programmes for the Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder's 125th birth anniversary.
Adhikari said the state government will also publish books on Mookerjee, build a 125-foot statue with a museum and other facilities at Eco Park, and restore his ancestral home at Jirat in Hooghly district, where a library and museum will be set up.
"The School Education Department will include Syama Prasad Mookerjee's contribution to the country, his far-reaching and development-oriented vision in independent India, and his constructive works in the syllabus from school to university levels," Adhikari said. He said this would help make the next generation aware of Mookerjee and would be implemented from the next academic year.
As part of the anniversary programmes, the government will also publish a book on Mookerjee. "An organisation with which Syama Prasad Mookerjee was once associated has already prepared a book through the efforts of (BJP leader) Tathagata Roy. We want to publish the book jointly with them. They will now convey their views on the matter," Adhikari said.
He said the state Library Department had also been asked to publish a comprehensive biography of Mookerjee in Bengali and English. "I hope the work will be completed within this year," he said.
Adhikari said the government had decided to erect a 125-foot statue of Mookerjee at Eco Park and that the bhoomi pujan for the project would be held there. The Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation briefed the special committee on Thursday about the proposed statue, museum and other facilities planned at the site. "We have asked them to start the work so that we can inaugurate it on July 6 next year," Adhikari said.
July 6 is Mookerjee's birth anniversary. He strongly opposed Jammu and Kashmir's special status under Article 370, entered Kashmir in 1953 without a permit, was arrested, and died in detention. The decisions taken at the first committee meeting cover curriculum changes, new publications, the Eco Park memorial project and the restoration of Mookerjee's ancestral home as part of the state's plans to mark his 125th birth anniversary.
Syama Prasad Mookerjee's contributions will be included in West Bengal's curriculum from school to university level from the next academic year, Suvendu Adhikari said on Thursday after the first meeting of a special committee set up to plan and implement programmes for the Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder's 125th birth anniversary.
Adhikari said the state government will also publish books on Mookerjee, build a 125-foot statue with a museum and other facilities at Eco Park, and restore his ancestral home at Jirat in Hooghly district, where a library and museum will be set up.
"The School Education Department will include Syama Prasad Mookerjee's contribution to the country, his far-reaching and development-oriented vision in independent India, and his constructive works in the syllabus from school to university levels," Adhikari said. He said this would help make the next generation aware of Mookerjee and would be implemented from the next academic year.
As part of the anniversary programmes, the government will also publish a book on Mookerjee. "An organisation with which Syama Prasad Mookerjee was once associated has already prepared a book through the efforts of (BJP leader) Tathagata Roy. We want to publish the book jointly with them. They will now convey their views on the matter," Adhikari said.
He said the state Library Department had also been asked to publish a comprehensive biography of Mookerjee in Bengali and English. "I hope the work will be completed within this year," he said.
Adhikari said the government had decided to erect a 125-foot statue of Mookerjee at Eco Park and that the bhoomi pujan for the project would be held there. The Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation briefed the special committee on Thursday about the proposed statue, museum and other facilities planned at the site. "We have asked them to start the work so that we can inaugurate it on July 6 next year," Adhikari said.
July 6 is Mookerjee's birth anniversary. He strongly opposed Jammu and Kashmir's special status under Article 370, entered Kashmir in 1953 without a permit, was arrested, and died in detention. The decisions taken at the first committee meeting cover curriculum changes, new publications, the Eco Park memorial project and the restoration of Mookerjee's ancestral home as part of the state's plans to mark his 125th birth anniversary.
