Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat: Education Minister to review progress

New Delhi: Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank', along with the Minister of State for Education Sanjay Dhotre, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javedkar and Tourism and Cultural Minister Prahlad Patel, will review the implementation of “Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat” on December 14. The scheme is an initiative undertaken by the government to promote unity across the country.

Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat

The review meeting will be organised by the Ministry of Education to analyse the progress made by different departments under the scheme launched in 2015.

The Education Ministry tweeted, “Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal along with his colleagues Minister of Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javedkar,

Minister of State for Tourism and Culture Prahlad Patel , Minister of State for Youth Affairs and State Education Minister Sanjay Dhotre will be reviewing the progress made within (the) Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat programme on 14th Dec at 3PM”.

https://twitter.com/EduMinOfIndia/status/1338013149216133120

To ensure implementation of the Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat scheme at the school-level, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) launched an initiative to promote use of languages other than the mother tongue among the students.

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Students are encouraged to learn at least 100 sentences in an Indian language apart from their mother tongue. Each state is paired with one or two Union Territories. And their respective students are supposed to learn about each other’s culture, languages and traditions.

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All the CBSE schools, state board schools, schools managed by the Union Territories. Also, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan are part of this programme.

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