Meira Kumar Pitches for a University for Artisans

New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar pitches for a university for the working class in order to save traditional knowledge and skills which are facing extinction. Therefore, soon there might be a university for artisans and craftsmen where they would get formal degrees from bachelors to doctorate for their skills.

She has forwarded the idea to the UPA government of labour university, catering to the class, which is repository of high skills, but does not have regular university degrees. She said that it will be a university for the working class and artisans. Moreover, she has taken it up with the government and is hoping for a positive response. As per sources, a green signal to the proposal was likely.

The idea is to put traditional knowledge and craftsmenship in a structured and formal learning centre. It will be without the mandatory requirement of a degree for a teacher to teach there, but will fetch student’s degrees for what they have learnt. In India, we have a fabulous tradition of beautiful crafts - wood, leather, wool, silk, be it during the ancient or medieval period or modern era. But a cloud hangs over their survival as everything has become degree-centric. There is knowledge beyond reading and writing, but the same has been forgotten by people at large.