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Early Times Reporter
Jammu| Sep 4: Repeating the history of last year's Children Day,
today on the eve of Teachers' Day which is celebrated across the
country coinciding with the birthday of former President of India, Dr
Sarvapali Radhakrishnan, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad once again
sought to convey that he believes in the Gandhian principles and
asserted that is the only way to get rid of the prevailing evils in
the society.
As history was made on November 14 last year when over 50,000 children
were drawn from across the region to celebrate the Children's Day
which coincides with the birthday of first Prime Minister Pandit
Jawahar Lal Nehru, this year the thousands of teachers were brought in
to commemorate the Teacher's Day. A similar function was held in
Srinagar also.
Addressing the teachers, the Chief Minister Azad said he was dismayed
to see that politics and government service, once considered as tools
to serve people had metamorphosed into trade with everybody engaged in
self aggrandizement. He said moral and social values had received the
worst beating as the urge for more money and power increased. He
called for self introspection and referred to great leaders like
Mahatma Gandhi and Motilal Nehru who abdicated their comforts for the
welfare of the masses. He said the situation was reverse today with
leaders striving for their own comforts at the cost of the common
people. He said despite enjoying global appreciation, the people of
the country were forgetting the philosophy of non-violence, ahimsa and
satyagraha. He said for building a healthy society the trend had to be
reversed and called upon one lakh strong teacher force in the State to
take up this responsibility.
The Chief Minister highlighted the need to impart value based
education to students, saying with improving literacy and living
standards "our society is witnessing a corresponding degradation in
the value system." He said this indicated that there was something
wrong with the way we were educating our children. However, he said he
was heartened by the support extended by teachers' association leaders
and participating teachers to his war against corruption and said
eradication of this evil was his Agenda The Chief Minister said that
the government was organizing state level debate on Gandhian
Philosophy and its relevance in 21st century separately for college
and school students with first prize of Rs one lakh, second prize of
Rs 50,000 and two third prizes of Rs 25,000 each. He said the debates
would be held at different levels and finals held at the state level.
The Chief Minister reminded the teachers of their role as architects
of the society and said at a time when values were losing meaning and
evils had plagued the society they would have to come forward and
prove true to their occupation. He said teachers were not merely
government officials concerned with their salary but were charged with
the onerous responsibilities of developing human resource and shaping
the future of the country. He said side by side with imparting
curriculum education to students they had to be the reformists and rid
the society of evils and degenerating value system. He said any
slackness on their part could prove detrimental for the society as a
whole.
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