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Odisha CM Inaugurates Utkal Gourav International School In Keonjhar, Wants Education To Focus On Emotional Needs

By
OB Bureau

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik today inaugurated Utkal Gourav International School in Berunapadi of Keonjhar district and said education should attach importance to emotional and spiritual needs of people.

Founded by Dr Pradeep Sethi, and mentored by Salil Chaturvedi, the school is built on the philosophy of Swami Yogananda that aims at intellectual and spiritual education combined to promote a harmonious life.

Inaugurating the school on virtual platform, Naveen congratulated the founders and the mentors for leading an initiative to transform education. He said it is a system of education that aims at physical, mental and spiritual well-being of our future generation.

Appreciating the goal behind this school, he said modern education provides us knowledge to understand the world around us, and use it to our advantage for sustaining seamless growth. “However, as human beings, we also need to look within. We also have our emotional and spiritual needs,” he said.

Therefore, he said, we must come together to create a model world civilization where each child from the villages and cities in India would be able to develop material efficiency along with spiritual magnificence.

Focusing on state’s initiative to transform education, he gave the instance of ‘MO School’, where, he said, we are connecting former students to their alma maters, where they are contributing to the growth of education in their schools. The objective is to involve an entire society to our education, our development process. As a society, we all must take responsibility and grow together, he added.

Citing the transformation of schools, he said that in Odisha, we are in a mission to provide global standard education to our children with the provision of all modern facilities. We have transformed more than 4000 schools with smart class rooms, modern libraries, laboratories, facilities for sports, and about 3000 schools are in progress under 5T school transformation, he added.

School & Mass Education Minister Samir Ranjan Dash cited the success of Odisha Adarsh Vidyalayas in promoting quality education among rural children. He said that 25 thousand children from villages are studying in 314 OAVs.

Keonjhar MP Chandrani Murmu also spoke on the occasion, and thanked the CM for transformation educational institution in the state.

Dr Salil Chaturvedi, mentor and advisor from Mumbai, said education is nothing but service to mankind. Through education, we must create a culture of infinite learnings.

Secretary to CM (5T) VK Pandian was present.

Founder Dr Pradeep Sethi welcomed the guests, and Chief Convenor Basudev Bhatta proposed the vote of thanks.

OB Bureau

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