Bharatiya Shiksha Board

Bharatiya Shiksha Board

Subject: Governance

Context: The idea to establish a new national school board, on the lines of CBSE, for “swadeshikaran (indigenisation)” of education was first mooted by Ramdev

Concept:

About BSB

• Its objective is to standardize Vedic Education through drafting syllabus, conducting examinations and issuing certificates.
• BSB will also be assigned the responsibility of evolving new kinds of schools that offer a blend of Vedic and modern education apart from affiliating traditional pathshalas.
• It will address the problem of recognizing traditional learning.
• The board will be set up as per the model bye-laws framed by Maharshi Sandipani Rashtriya Vedavidya Pratishthan, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
• MSRP was set to develop and propagate oral studies of the Vedas.
• It currently affiliates 450 institutions of traditional learning like pathshalas and guru-shishyaparamparayojana across the country.
• Moreover, this organization has been conducting both Class X and XII examinations, and its certificates are not considered equivalent to the mainstream levels of education by the several institutions.