The competition is at highest level in Govt. Reading the comments here, I don't think we got freedom from the British. The comments caused a lot of laughter in IIT Bombay and on social media. Pokhriyal reminded the outgoing students of the glorious past of the country, while mentioning all these names. In 1985, Rajiv Gandhi government changed its name to Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and with the public announcement of newly drafted ' National Education Policy 2020 ' by the Narendra Modi government, Ministry of Human Resource Development was renamed back to Ministry of Education. The Greek philosopher was born a couple of centuries earlier to Charaka. India had the Ministry of Education since 1947. We have a huge knowledge base to give the world,” he said.Īccording to the western history, Democritus is known to be the first one to theorise about atoms, which, he said, were the building blocks of all existing matter. Is this the case or not?” Pokhriyal asked.
If there’s no Ayurveda, then medicine is incomplete, they say. Even the biggest of hospitals in the world don’t begin operations before they start an AYUSH wing. He was the HRD minister in the period from Januto and from Decemto February 09, 1995. He completed B.A from Osmania University and did a Masters in Law from Nagpur University. In his early life, he worked as a lawyer. “Can we forget Aryabhatta? It was he who gave us ‘zero’? Can we forget Sushruta, who was the first surgeon of this world and taught the world the art of surgery? Can we forget Charaka, who gave us the art of Ayurveda? Now, people who used to doubt its (Ayurveda's) credibility are sure of its supremacy. Narasimha Rao was 10th prime minister of India. In the same speech, Pokhriyal mentioned, Charaka, Aryabhatta, Sushruta, Ayurveda and yoga as India's symbols of leadership in science.