New Delhi: India is preparing for the first time to perform the Gram Sabhas concept to classrooms to educate children in rural and tribal areas about their rights and duties. The PanChayati Raj Ministry is ready to launch the “YouTH Gram Sabha” (MyGS), a school program where students will be according to two higher government officials who told Mint telling the conditions of anonymity, such as the popular UN or youth parliament.
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Efforts focus on “catching young” and that the local democracy for children, according to the first official. “It will not be a series of lectures, but an exercise led by a student. The idea is to raise a generation that understands the role of a gram of Sabhas in the formation of village life and sees the local government as a meaningful space for merging society,” the official explained. Assigned budget for MyGS is £8.5 Crore for the current fiscal year.
To do this, the Ministry of Panchayati Raj plans to lift the Ministry of Education and the tribal matters to start the gram of Sabhas as part of the program, which will be generally known as the “model of the youth gram Sabha (MyGS),” the second official said.
Debut at 1200 schools
This initiative will make their debut in 1,100-1 200 schools, including Jawahar Vidyalayas, Eklava Model Residential School in tribal regions and government schools in rural areas of Maharashtra and Karnataka.
Students will act as a sarpanch, members of the department and villagers, discussing issues and admitting resolutions on things that affect community life, according to officials. The Ministry of Panchayati Raj is developing curriculum and modules for these false gram Sabhas.
“It is planned to start in the phases. In the first phase, around 620 Jawahar Vidyalayas and 200 residential schools Eklava, will be included. More schools will be added in the second phase. Maharashtra and Karnataka voluntarily participated in the program.
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E -mail inquiry sent to the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, the Ministry of School Education and Literacy (Dolel) and the Ministry of Major Affairs (MOTA) remained unanswered until the press time. States will decide whether participation in MyGS will be an extracurricular activity or whether it will be integrated into the curriculum of social sciences.
The first structured attempt
This is the first structured attempt to involve schoolchildren directly in the processes of the village. The ministry is of the opinion that early exhibition will build awareness between rural youth about their rights and at the same time revive the interest in gram Sabhas, which often fought with low participation.
If the program was successful, it could be expanded to the national level, so gram Sabha was known to students as a parliament he sees on television. India has about 2.68 lakh gram Panchayats or gram Sabhas, while the total number of villages is much higher at approximately 6.65 lakhu.
“The Youth Gram Sabha would act as a strong incubator for future leadership, giving basic skills and a strong ethical foundation that exceeds textbooks,” the second official said.
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Experts Say This Kind of Early Civic Education is Crucial for and Country Aspiring To Become and Developed Nation by 2047. ”Democracies Rely On Active, Participatory Governance Disconnected from Formal Policy Debates-Are Trained to See Themselves as Stakeholders in Local Decision-Making, ”Said Ashish Kumar Singh, President of Citizen Forum, and Civil Rights Information in Bihar’s Katihar.
“The Government Initiative is likely to support social integration by informing students about the local level development process, and would also improve their skills of becoming future leaders,” said Singh, Sarpanch, Amipur Block of Ambala in Haryana.
The implementation strategy includes a gradual approach, including building capacities by training main coaches at national level (NLMT), who will subsequently train school teachers to effectively simulate.
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