Abstract: Mahatma Gandhi the father of the nation was a great educational thinker and his philosophy of education is still discoursed almost in all the countries. On 31st July 1937, he published an article in Harijan regarding his thought on Nai- Talim/Basic Education and on 22nd and 23rd October in the same year based upon his article Gandhi organized an All India National Education Conference. This conference is also known as Wardha Education Conference which highly focused on that education is incomplete if it does not have any input for the vocational development of the students. Gandhi said that knowledge and work should not be separated. Both are inter-linked and interdependent. Education is the most powerful tool to inculcate the value of dignity of labour among youths and to develop various skills. So, naturally educational institutions, either schools or universities have a great role to play towards the country by transforming all the children into skilled man power. In this background, emphasising the tremendous need of Mahatma Gandhi’s thought on Nai-Talim or Basic Education this study has been undertaken. The objectives of the study are - to make introspection to the various skill development and value promoting principles in Gandhi’s Nai-talim and to study the relevance of Gandhi’s Nai-talim for rural development in present India.
Keywords: Nai-Talim, Youths, Skill, Present, India.
Title: PRESENT DAY RELEVANCE OF GANDHI’S NAI-TALIM FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Author: DR. MALLIKA KALITA
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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