Maharashta Education Minister: Shivaji Maharaj was a management guru

The plan to include a chapter on Shivaji Maharaj “a management guru” was also mentioned in January by Tawde during inauguration of an event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production and Curriculum Research — ‘Balbharti’.

Tawde said, “Until now, we all knew and students learnt about Shivaji Maharaj the warrior king from textbooks. But Shivaji Maharaj was also a good management guru, and students will get to know all about that in this particular chapter. His work in the areas of water conservation, water distribution, forest conservation among others is the examples of Shivaji Maharaj’s management skills in those times.”

After garlanding the portrait of Shivaji Maharaj on Friday at Mantralaya, Tawde said Shivaji Maharaj was a great Maratha warrior King.
This has been taught in class IV history textbook for decades.

But students should also get to know about Maratha warrior’s management skills and so the state government has decided to add eight pages dedicated to Shivaji Maharaj’s management skills, he said.

Tawde had also announced a change in name of a chapter. The chapter, currently named ‘Uprising of 1857’, will henceforth be called ‘Freedom struggle of 1857’.

“The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has already suggested these changes but this has not been reflected in the textbook of the State board. Now these changes will be implemented from the next academic year,” he said.

The Education department is also aiming to make textbooks more visually appealing and this will also be reflected in e-content, which is being developed by Balbharti.

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