Life, Career equally important as core subjects: LG Manoj Sinha to Students
Srinagar, Dec 20 (KNO): The Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha Wednesday said students need to focus on life and career similarly like they take core subjects seriously in order to utilize their creativity.
Speaking during the annual day celebration of Sainik School Nagrota, Sinha said, “Students are the real treasure of our country and taking India to the next level of excellence and development is their job.”
According to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the LG on the occasion said, “Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, New Education Policy was introduced wherein the students have been given a lot of choices to study their preferred subjects.”
He said that the policy has given an opportunity to the students to explore their creativity.
“Besides core subjects, NEP has also given a space to focus on critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, innovation, imagination and communication. Nowadays, the new inventions we are seeing are a result of critical thinking and creativity,” Sinha said.
He added, “Earlier, we did not have any flexibility in the education system and the students were not being given a space to explore themselves. However, I believe that the majority of the innovations the outputs of imagination.”
Sinha further said that with imagination, students can make any innovative thing and by holding the innovative thinking and imagination they can make impossible things possible.
“There is a need to bring reforms in our approach. We need to focus on life and career similarly like we take core subjects,” he said—(KNO)
