Bengaluru: Primary and Secondary Education Minister of Karnataka – BC Nagesh in the state Legislative Council said the state government has decided to introduce Bhagavad Gita as a separate subject and include it in moral education. Nagesh made the remarks while replying to a query during the Assembly session.
Minister said, “We are contemplating to begin teaching the Bhagavad Gita from this academic year. It will be taught under a moral science subject. The discussion is going on. A committee will be formed, and we will take a decision soon,”
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai had said that it was his government’s stand to include the Bhagavad Gita into the syllabus as a part of the moral science subject. Minister for Large and Medium Industries Murugesh Nirani has stated that Bhagavad Gita has human values and children need to learn about those values.
The government of Gujarat has taken a decision to add Bhagavad Gita in the syllabus and a decision should be taken in Karnataka also to introduce Bhagavad Gita to children, he had said.
However, senior Congress leader and former minister from Mysuru, Tanveer Sait stirred controversy over the weekend by stating that introducing the Bhagavad Gita in the syllabus “is more dangerous than Covid pandemic”.
(Vinayak)