Country’s ethos should reflect in curriculum of educational institutions: Tamil Nadu Governor Arlekar
Tamil Nadu Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar stated that educational curricula should reflect the country's cultural ethos and focus on entrepreneurship. During a conclave on minority institutions, he emphasized the need for schools to produce job-givers rather than job-seekers.
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The speech highlights a push for nationalistic alignment in education and a focus on startup incubation within minority-run academic institutions.
The ethos of the country should reflect in the curriculum and syllabus of educational institutions, Tamil Nadu Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar said in Chennai on Monday (August 3, 2026).
Inaugurating a national conclave on ’The Role of Minority Educational Institutions in Unity, Cultural Diversity, and Nation Building: Viksit Bharat @ 2047’ at the B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology (BSACIST), Governor Arlekar noted that the ethos of the country should provide guidance behind curriculum and syllabus, which, he said, has to be discussed at length. “We all belong to this soil, this country, this culture. We are not aliens, we are not foreigners. Our education system will have to be conforming to that ethos, that thought process,” Mr. Arlekar added. He urged all educational institutions to produce “not job-seekers, but job-givers”, stressing on the importance of setting up entrepreneurship development cells.
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