Role of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad in Reconstruction and Inclusion of National Education in India

Abstract

As a potent force of systematized change, education actually in turn, transforms humans into human resource. It is an inner process of ethical and intellectual development for not only ‘preparation for life’, but in the final analysis the ‘finding of a way of life’. When Maulana Abul Kalam Azad took his charge as an Education Minister, our country was passing through her most delicate situation. In this particular context, he embraced ‘liberal, democratic, humanitarian and inclusion’ of his educational approach with a view to generating and transforming the outlook of the people and set the nation on the path of progress and development. In this very context, the present paper provides an analytical overview of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s role in reconstruction and inclusion of national education in India, in a way where every citizen of our country ‘finding their way of life’.