To, 1. Honble Minister of Education, Haryana. 2. Honble Chairperson, Board of School Education, Haryana. Subject: Humane Education in Curriculum.

Greetings, Whole Nation is celebrating animal welfare fortnight January 14-31, 2014 and being an Honorary Animal Welfare Officer, AWBI (Ministry of Environment and Forest), Programme Director, OIPA www.oipa.org - Indian People for Animals and Member, District Public Relation and Grievances Committee (Govt. of Haryana), I am in the opinion that Board of School Education, Haryana may adopt the procedure applied by CBSE, in case of animal welfare, actually article 51 A (g) of Indian Constitution defined the fundamental duties of every citizen. Children across India will soon be learning kindness to animals as part of their school curriculum. Dr Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for Human Resource Development, has urged the National Council of Educational Research and Training to examine incorporating our humane-education programme, Compassionate Citizen, in its textbooks, while Vineet Joshi, Chair of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), has issued a notification to CBSE schools to use Compassionate Citizen as part of the official school curricula. The notification, issued to more than 10,000 CBSE affiliated schools around the country, explains how the programme can be easily included in the school curricula via the languages, science, social studies, environmental and values education subjects. Compassionate Citizen is also perfect for use in Eco and animal rights clubs in schools. Compassionate Citizen has been successfully used in nearly 15,000 private and government schools, reaching 3 million children between the ages of 8 and 12 years, and with the board's help, even more children will learn how to respect animals and peacefully coexist with them.

Most children have a natural affection for animals, but they become desensitized to cruelty and learn to accept the way things are. Receiving humane education early on can help children retain the compassion that they feel for animals and turn it into action. And there are more good news Dr RM Kharb, Chair of the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI), has shown his support by writing to Gerry Arathoon, Chair of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, asking for the inclusion of PETA followed by OIPA www.oipa.org Indian People for Animals school programme in their official school curricula, where as Naresh Kadyan, Member, State Committee for Slaughter Houses, Department of Urban and Local Bodies, Haryana placed this matter before the committee for consideration, Abhishek Kadyan, Hon. AWO / Member of District Public Relation and Grievances Committee, Govt. of Haryana, Media Adviser to OIPA Indian People for Animals also sharing me to extend our joint request to please approved our proposal for your school curricula via the languages, science, social studies, environmental and values education subjects. Compassionate Citizen is also perfect for use in Eco and animal rights clubs in schools. Please include Humane Education in Curriculum, school curricula via the languages, science, social studies, environmental and values education subjects. Compassionate Citizen is also perfect for use in Eco and animal rights clubs in schools. Regards,

Miss Sukanya Kadyan

C-38, Rose apartment, Prashant Vihar, sector-14, Rohini, Delhi 110085. www.pfaharyana.in and www.oipa.org Email: kadyan.ipfa@gmail.com and india@oipa.org

Introduction The concept of cultural heritage in a broad sense, '' it is perceived as comprising of movable and immovable assets of artistic, literary, architectural, historical, archaeological, ethnological, scientific value that embody the essence of a nation. We at CBSE with this website want to introduce online asset to engage with Heritage Education. In order to devise ways to popularize heritage education in schools and among the young children nationwide, CBSE has partnered with Sahapedia (An online encyclopedia on Indian Culture and Heritage). With this collaboration, CBSE and Sahapedia are creating a space for synergy in the area of heritage education. We invite teachers and students to be part of this journey, contribute content in this space, share experiences, knowledge and the joy of learning together. While preparing this website at CBSE, we have tried to comprehend and make use of conceptual definitions that are available with International organizations like UNESCO, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (Washington D.C) etc. However, we were quite aware that this subject matter is meant for Indian students and teachers who are coming from a wide diverse cultural regions and backgrounds. Therefore, we have tried to tailor the material from an Indian perspective. Heritage Education although has been debated and critiqued internationally we at CBSE would like to present this subject from within the Indian context which can be defined as: Heritage Education can only be understood only if we first explain to you the meaning of heritage in simple terms. Heritage from an Indian perspective is about flowing traditions that have on one hand are handed down from the past and on the other hand traditions that are created in the present and will be passed in one form or the other to future generations. Together past and present traditions merge to become a feature of a civilizational identity. Hence Heritage is a Parampara and represents a Nations identity. Heritage Education is therefore an attempt to understand all that makes the identity of Indian civilization. Heritage Education is a link program to explore the heritage of multiple subjects simultaneously taught in schools in an innovative and creative manner. Hence we have introduced a section of project work. Heritage Education is on one hand interpreting the past for the use of the future, and recognizing contemporary traditions that affect the present and will influence the future. Broadly speaking there is according to the international categories there are three types of Heritage: 1. Cultural Heritage: This has two broad categories Tangible and Intangible Heritage.

i) Tangible Cultural Heritage: It is one that can be stored and physically touched. This includes items produced by the cultural group such as traditional clothing, utensils (such as beadwork, water vessels), or vehicles (such as the ox wagon). Tangible heritages include great monuments such as temples, pyramids, and public monuments. Though a tangible heritage can perish, it is generally more obvious how it can be conserved than intangible heritages that are at greater risk and can be lost for all time. ii) Intangible Cultural Heritage : Culture that can be recorded but cannot be touched and interacted with, without a vehicle for the culture. These cultural vehicles are called "Human Treasures" by the UN. These include traditions of performances rituals, dance, singing, myths, beliefs, knowledge systems and storytelling; this category includes traditions of skills and processes such as skill related to various professions pottery, carpentry, plumbing, cooking. An intangible heritage is that which exists intellectually in the culture. 2. Natural Heritage: Natural heritage refers to outstanding physical, biological and geological formations, habitats of threatened species of animals and plants and areas with scientific, conservation or aesthetic value. In this category. 3. Digital Heritage : Since 1960s and early 1970s many historians have begun to use computers. Digital technology and tools have helped them to powerfully arrange ideas and promote unique analysis, presentation and access their finding of historical knowledge in online media It is also sometimes mentioned broadly to the use of digital media and tools for historical practice, presentation, analysis, and research. .. According to Wiliam G. Thomas (2008), digital history is an approach to examine and represent the past that works with the new communication technologies of the computer, the Internet network, and software systems. We will elaborate on this subject in the methodology section Education that uses resources from the material culture and built environment to enrich learning and instill a preservation ethic -- studies of historic sites, landscapes, structures, and objects are integrated into existing curriculum units in the liberal and fine arts and sciences. http://heritage.cbseacademic.in

Compassionate Citizen Humane-Education Programme

For todays young people, developing compassion for animals can be a key step towards developing compassion for and rejecting violence against all beings, including humans and developing respect for the environment. It is important, therefore, that students learn that the animals with whom we share this planet are, in many ways, not so different from us. Compassionate Citizen is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Indias version of PETA US internationally recognised humane-education programme, Share the World, which is designed to help students better understand and appreciate animals. Compassionate Citizen is

appropriate for students aged 8-12 years, but has also been successfully used for other age groups and can be used in language arts, science, social studies, environmental and value education curricula. Compassionate Citizen has been praised by numerous celebrities, including Lara Dutta, Raveena Tandon Thadani, Anupam Kher and Jackie Shroff as well as by educators and environmentalist Dr RK Pachauri, director general of the prestigious The Energy and Resources Institute. The pack includes a guide for teachers as well as reproducible worksheets and a 28 minute video. Although designed to be included in the monthly curriculum, the programme can also be used for a shorter period of time, including a one-day workshop. You can download the worksheets from here http://heritage.cbseacademic.in/. To order a full copy of the Compassionate Citizen pack with video, you can write to PujaM@petaindia.org. To learn more about the programme, log onto www.CompassionateCitizen.Com. Resources: Teachers Guide : Click Here Activity Sheets : Part 1 and Part 2 Poster: Click Here http://heritage.cbseacademic.in/blog/index.php/compassionate-citizen-humane-educationprogramme PETA India: http://www.petaindia.com/b/petaokplease/archive/2013/04/25/cbse-includeshumane-education-in-curriculum.aspx AWBI: http://www.awbi.org/?q=node/140
Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), has issued a notification to CBSE schools to use Compassionate Citizen as part of the official school curricula.