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New Delhi: The reforms suggested by the parliamentary panel include an all India-level regulatory body, a central university dedicated only to the arts, mandatory arts education up to Class 10, and setting up dedicated departments across universities.
The panel suggested an AICTE-like body to encourage education in performing arts and fine arts in the country. In its latest report titled, Reforms in Education of Performing and Fine Arts, the panel has suggested different measures to promote the field of arts in the educational institutions.
Earlier, this week, during the ongoing budget session, the report was tabled in Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha.
The panel recommended the government tomake arts education a compulsory subject up to Class 10 and provide adequate infrastructure in every school across the country.
According to the report, the committee is aware of the fact that Art education has great possibility to develop a creative and vibrant learning environment in schools; however there has been a lack of clear vision and inadequacies in the Art education policies, curriculum guidelines, and teaching strategies, which have been framed and implemented so far.
The committee, in its recommendations, has directed the education ministry to discover the possibility of establishing a central university like Rashtriya Kala Vishwa Vidyalaya or the National University of Arts via an Act of Parliament with regional centres at prominent cultural locations in India.
Further, the panel has noticed the requirement to change or modify the curriculum to “dispel the colonial framing of art education” and encourage the art field not just as a hobby but as a lucrative profession.
The report mentions that the committee has observed a need to develop performing arts and fine arts as viable career options and to attract more students to the art field.
The panel highlighted the step towards implementation of the National Education Policy, or NEP 2020, that emphasises on the promotion of Indian languages, arts, and culture.
Read: NEP 2020 Objectives to be initiated through National Curriculum Framework
Incorporating Arts Education in School
The parliamentary panel stated that the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), State Councils of Education Research and Training (SCERT) and the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) should conduct a national consultation to incorporate arts education in schools.
Taking into account the regional and language sensibilities, the following bodies should design the education curriculum of performing and fine arts. With the help of the curriculum, the students will appreciate and understand the arts better and take it up as a vocation, the panel said.
According to the panel's suggestions, the arts must include music, dance, visual arts, and theatre with special emphasis on Indian traditional and folk arts. The panel also recommended the ministry to explore the possibility of including filmmaking in the school curriculum.
Moreover, the panel urged the ministry of education to liberalize the qualification requirements to recruit teachers and fill up the vacancies at the earliest.
The panel said that as an immediate measure, the ministry of education should take a relook at essential/ desirable educational qualifications for recruitment of teachers to different universities/ colleges/ schools making them more liberal by giving more weightage to achievements in the field of performing arts.
It also suggested the regularising of ad-hoc teachers to fulfil the teachers’ requirements.
Further, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) must lay down definite criteria to employ artists and craftspersons from local communities as guest faculty.
As per the panel's recommendation, the new courses in emerging areas like translation and interpretation of art, museum administration, artifact conservation, graphic, and web design should be started for Class 11 and 12 students.
Read: AICTE Directs Deemed Universities Not to Provide Technical Courses Without Prior Approval
Panel Suggests AICTE-like Regulatory Body
The panel observed that despite the media, entertainment education, animation, and VFX Gaming being a creative field, they have been classified under ‘technical education under the All India Council for Technical Education, AICTE definition.
Thus, the panel recommended the creation of All India Council for Creative Arts on the lines of AICTE to develop a regulatory framework appropriate for the creative fields.
The created regulatory body will be responsible for assessment, accreditation, allocation of resources along with the preparation of course material for the Art education.
Additionally, the panel suggested that at present, the AICTE should address the misclassification of clubbing creative areas of art education such as media and entertainment, under technical education or under the overarching umbrella of Bachelor of Arts and critically evaluate classification methodology.
The parliamentary panel impelled the ministry to confer Institute of National Importance (INI) status to Arts institutions like the National School of Drama (NSD) and Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) to assist them in expanding their work.
This status will permit these institutions to award graduate, postgraduate degrees and it will also make them eligible for grants to expand infrastructure.
The panel concluded saying that a task force must be created to recognize the sectors and institutions where art graduates or diploma holders can find feasible career opportunities.
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