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Ministry Of Education: Election Commission and ministry of education collaborate to promote electoral literacy in schools and colleges | India News
NEW DELHI: Eager to take electoral literacy to the lecture rooms, the Election Fee on Thursday entered right into a memorandum of understanding with the ministry of schooling to groom college and school college students to be told, enlightened and accountable voters sooner or later.
The MoU seeks to systematically combine voters’ schooling and classes on electoral literacy into the curricular framework for Courses 6-12 at college degree and likewise throughout all faculties and universities, the place it will likely be tailor-made to swimsuit totally different disciplines.
An EC assertion stated the initiative to incorporate faculties and faculties within the attain of its systematic voters’ schooling and electoral participation programme (SVEEP) will put together college students in faculties for his or her first vote and ingrain democratic values and ethos into their impressionable minds. Talking lately on younger voters, chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar had emphasised the necessity to “catch them younger” and make them conscious of the essential position of a voter in democracy, the voting course of, ethos and magnitude of elections, in order that they will make an knowledgeable alternative as voters.
The bigger goal of the MoU is to deal with voter apathy. This apathy, largely seen in younger and concrete voters, had manifested within the non-participation of one-third of the voters in 2019 basic elections.
As per phrases of the MoU, NCERT will incorporate content material on electoral literacy at school textbooks and advise State Training Boards to observe swimsuit. The content material may even be constructed into co-curricular and extra-curricular actions, reminiscent of institution of electoral literacy golf equipment and a devoted ‘democracy room’ in each senior secondary college for the common show of voter schooling supplies and the conduct of Steady Electoral and Democracy Training (CEDE) actions.
CEDE will assist college college students develop vital considering, communication, and management abilities to actively take part in university-level politics, together with participating in knowledgeable debates and discussions.
SVEEP actions in faculties and faculties will encourage college students to register as voters as they method 18 years of age, facilitating the EC’s aspirational aim of handing over the voter ID card to each scholar attaining minimal voting age.
The MoU seeks to systematically combine voters’ schooling and classes on electoral literacy into the curricular framework for Courses 6-12 at college degree and likewise throughout all faculties and universities, the place it will likely be tailor-made to swimsuit totally different disciplines.
An EC assertion stated the initiative to incorporate faculties and faculties within the attain of its systematic voters’ schooling and electoral participation programme (SVEEP) will put together college students in faculties for his or her first vote and ingrain democratic values and ethos into their impressionable minds. Talking lately on younger voters, chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar had emphasised the necessity to “catch them younger” and make them conscious of the essential position of a voter in democracy, the voting course of, ethos and magnitude of elections, in order that they will make an knowledgeable alternative as voters.
The bigger goal of the MoU is to deal with voter apathy. This apathy, largely seen in younger and concrete voters, had manifested within the non-participation of one-third of the voters in 2019 basic elections.
As per phrases of the MoU, NCERT will incorporate content material on electoral literacy at school textbooks and advise State Training Boards to observe swimsuit. The content material may even be constructed into co-curricular and extra-curricular actions, reminiscent of institution of electoral literacy golf equipment and a devoted ‘democracy room’ in each senior secondary college for the common show of voter schooling supplies and the conduct of Steady Electoral and Democracy Training (CEDE) actions.
CEDE will assist college college students develop vital considering, communication, and management abilities to actively take part in university-level politics, together with participating in knowledgeable debates and discussions.
SVEEP actions in faculties and faculties will encourage college students to register as voters as they method 18 years of age, facilitating the EC’s aspirational aim of handing over the voter ID card to each scholar attaining minimal voting age.
