Minister of State for School and Higher Education Deepak Joshi has said that women had been given the highest place in Indian society and added that in India laxmi was regarded as deity for money, Durga as deity for power and Saraswati for knowledge.
Joshi, however, said that respect to women has been corroded after introduction of ‘Macaulay system of education in India’. Joshi was addressing the 9th conference of Indian Women Philosophers Council at Barkatullah University here on Friday. As many as 180 women are participating in the conference.
Joshi said that issue of women’s upliftment will be discussed at the conference.
He also called for united efforts to help women get respectable place in society. latter, the Minister also released council’s souvenir.
Vice-Chancellor of Barkatullah University MD Tiwari and other representatives were present on the occasion.
In another functioned of the convocation of IASE, the Minister announced that 39,000 teachers will be recruited in the State soon.
He said that the State Government had brought teachers out of Karmi culture and promised that honour of teacher will not be allowed to be corroded.
In the function, Joshi said that every student had one or another talent and responsibility lies with teachers to discover that.
He informed that he was motivated to deliver speech by teacher when he was studying in Class VII and he also suggested teacher to be remained in constant touch with students.
Joshi also gave away MEd degrees for year 2012-13 and BEd degrees for 2013-14.
Joshi gave away MEd degrees to Roopali Jadhav, Meeta Saxena, Shahina Siddiqui, Pratibha Jaiswal and Nidhi Jain and BEd degrees to Sarita, Priyanka Bhargava, Hemlata, Mini Chopra and Puja Mukati. Institute’s principal informed that it has 150 seats of which 35 are reserved for students of Andoman-Nicobar. Ex-students shared their experiences on the occasion.