A symposium was held here on Wednesday at Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication (MCNUJC), Bhopal on the subject, 'Swami Vivekananda's vision for education: An opinion for national resurgence' during State-level Vice-Chancellors' Conference.
The Vice-Chancellors of different universities of the State shared their thoughts on value-education, education for personality development and moral education with reference to the vision of Swami Vivekananda for education.
A consensus was also made, on the occasion, to carry out research works focusing persona, deeds and ideologies of Swami Vivekananda with collective efforts. The conference also decided to conduct co-institutional activities on regular intervals to take the ideas and vision of Swamiji to the students.
The function was presided over by former Governor of Himachal Pradesh, Justice Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje who in his address advocated the establishment of a Vivekananda Chair at all the universities.
Kokje said, "We would have to tell the students that the stress that comes with the big salaries could only be overcome with the lessons of Swami Vivekananda. They would learn the lessons of developing concentration and skills to achieve their goals after reading Swami Vivekananda. This way, they would not only study Vivekananda but also imbibe his preaching."
National general secretary of Swami Vivekananda Sardh Shati Samaroh Samiti, Aniruddh Deshpande said the philosophies of Swami Vivekananda are relevant even after 125 years today.
MCNUJC vice-chancellor Prof Brij Kishore Kuthiala said, "Today all the scholars, teachers, students, parents and social workers want the education system to change and being vice-chancellors it is our collective responsibility to meet this expectation of the society."
Secretary of Shiksha Utthan Nyas, Delhi, Atul Kothari said that big changes could be brought out with small experiments and part-time courses could be of great help in this direction.
Scholar, Jitendra Bajaj, on this occasion, expressed his views over the book published covering the proceedings of National VC's Conference on November 16-17, 2013 following which the book was also released at the function.