Gujarat schools to teach about Dhirubhai Ambani

Ahmedabad: The BJP government in Gujarat is mulling to introduce a chapter on Reliance Group founder Dhirubhai Ambani in school textbooks to instill spirit of entrepreneurship in young minds.

The idea has been put across by Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasma to the state Textbook Board, a senior state official said.

"The minister mooted the idea at a recent meeting of the office-bearers of the state textbook board that our children should be taught about lives and struggles of famous personalities, like Dhirubhai Ambani," Chief of the Gujarat State School Textbook Board (GSSTB) Nitin Pethani told PTI.

"Apart from Dhirubhai Ambani, there are many unknown personalities who had given their best to the society in terms of industrial entrepreneurship like Devkaran Nanji, the founder of Dena Bank," Pethani said.

"On instructions from the minister (Chudasma), we have directed textbook officials to draw up a list of such eminent personalities which we are likely to be added in the curriculum of standard IX to XII or we can also add it in the general knowledge books of standard VI to VIII," he added.