Nai Talim

Nai Talim

Part of: Prelims and GS I – History

Context Recently, the Vice President of India said that the New Education Policy follows the ‘Nai Talim’ of Mahatma Gandhi by giving importance to the mother tongue as the medium of instruction at the school level.

About Nai Talim-

• Nai-Talim, also known as Buniyadi Shikshan, means basic education.
• It is also called Experiential Learning.
• It had laid emphasis on making mother tongue as the medium of instruction in addition to free compulsory education and skill training to the students.
• It is essentially a mass education approach due to its centrality of socially useful work and was expected to create a National System of Education.

Mahatma Gandhi gave his scheme of Nai Talim (New Education) in a well-formulated approach to education in 1937 in his newspaper ‘Harijan’.