The MoU intends to bring Yoga and Sustainability to the heart of agriculture across the ICAR-AUs
A Team of 55 state Vice Chancellors from the agricultural Universities across the country and the Additional Deputy General of ICAR were present at the signing ceremony.
An MoU was signed today between Heartfulness Education Trust’s (HET) Heartful Campus and Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) at the largest meditation hall in the world at Kanha Shanti Vanam – the Heartfulness Headquarters in the outskirts of Hyderabad.
A team of least 55 state Vice Chancellors from the agricultural sector from across the country and Additional Deputy General of ICAR were present at the signing ceremony as the MoU was signed by Shri Kamlesh Patel ‘Daaji’ the Guide of Heartfulness and Shri Rakesh Agarwal – Deputy General of ICAR.
The team was welcomed by Dr. Nivedita Shreyans – Programme Coordinator on behalf of Heartful Campus and Mr. Ramesh Krishnan – Director of Heartful Campus programme.
The MoU is targeted at HET delivering various credit courses jointly approved as undergraduate and postgraduate curricula given by universities and institutes under the auspices of the ICAR’s National Agricultural Research System (NARS) (ICAR-AU system).
The classes will be free of charge and will count for two credit points toward the overall curriculum.
The alliance aims to collaborate on the programme offerings of HET as Heartful Campus modules across India to all ICAR-AUs, which include 75 state universities with over 200,000 agricultural students.
The MoU will include all university students in a meditation module that will assist enhance their outlook and approach to humanity, relationships, ways to balance material life, approach to occupation or vocation, and cultivating humility, love, compassion, and being close to divinity.
Each student will be able to contact with a Heartful Campus trainer, of which there are at least 1400 worldwide.
The MoU intended to provide students, teachers, and counsellors from colleges, institutes, and universities, as well as administrative personnel from ICAR, with access to HET courses and programs.
HET’s courses will be connected with the aims of education, training, and research in environmental sustainability and sustainable technologies, as recommended by the National Education Policy.
The agreement also includes internship opportunities for students from ICAR-approved universities. Heartful campus modules, beginning with Heartfulness meditation, will help students on their individual campuses for the betterment and well-being of India’s future youth.
As part of the agreement a three-week induction programme as recommended by ICAR shall encourage all the ICAR-AUs across India to include the ‘Start up program’.
Certificates bearing both ICAR and HET logos will be issued to students for the programmes and the students will be able to earn credits for the same. For these programmes ICAR and HET may nominate coordinators for effective implementation.
“HET’s mission will be to generate curricula that will provide for both theoretical and practical application in a very cohesive way. Sustainability is at the core of our values. Sustainable practices will therefore be prominent part of the curricula. We wish to empower our students to produce organic yields with sustainable practices so that we can preserve our environment for our future generations as well. There must be balance at every level. Balance is essential in every aspect of our lives. With agricultural practices we want to intertwine the best of the modern technology with ancient wisdom. I am very happy that ICAR has associated with us for a good cause and together we hope to create wonders in training, knowledge transfer and enabling research at ICAR-AUs across the country.”
Shri Kamlesh Patel ‘Daaji’ – Guide of Heartfulness and President of HET said,
“We believe that this MoU will take education and research in agriculture in the country to a new phase that will amalgamate the best modern practices with sustainability on the fore and the traditional knowledge. India has primarily been an agricultural country. Much of our pedigree yield is also exported to other countries. We need to be able to produce pedigree crops every year not only for exports but also for our people at home to relish. I suppose with the knowledge transfer and research ensuing with this partnership will facilitate quality yields for the masses at affordable price and sustainability in place.”
Shri Rakesh Agarwal – Deputy Director General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research said,
This is the first of its kind partnership between HET and ICAR. Earlier this HET had also signed an MoU with AICTE to help students access the Heartfulness resources at all the academic institutions under AICTE.
The trainings have benefitted the students immensely even through their professions in reducing stress parameters. Similar achievement is expected of the HET and ICAR association as well.
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