Eklavya is a character from the Mahabharatepic. He wanted to learn archery but was refused as a student of the AcharyaDrona because of his low shudracaste origins. Eklavya decided to make an idol out of clay of the guru Drona and learnt by worshipping the idol archery. When Drona came upon Eklavya, he was astounded to see that the young boy was even better than his own disciple, Arjuna, of Royal descent. As an ultimate sacrifice from the boy, he asked Eklavya to cut off his thumb as dakshina to his guru (Drona himaself). Eklavaya did so, knowing full well that without his thumb he would never be as good an archer again. The Mahabharata (Devanagari: महाभारत, phonetically Mahābhārata - see note), sometimes just called Bharata, is the great religious, philosophical and mythological epic of India. ... EPIC might be an acronym or abbreviation for: Electronic Privacy Information Center Exchange Price Information Computer of the London Stock Exchange Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing Enhanced Programmable ircII Client - a chat client for Unix-like systems El Paso Intelligence Center End Poverty In California European Privatisation and Investment Corporation European... Jump to: navigation, search Archers in Competition Archery is the practice of using a bow to shoot arrows. ... Jump to: navigation, search An acharya is a prominent guru, teacher and scholar who teaches by his own example (from Sanskrit achara, behavior). ... Jump to: navigation, search In the epic Mahabharata, Drona (or Dronacharya) is the royal guru to the Kauravas and the Pandavas. ... Jump to: navigation, search Shudra or Sudra is the fourth caste or varna in the traditional four-caste division in Indian society. ... Jump to: navigation, search A caste system is a rigid system of social stratification, which divides members of a society into different castes and sub-castes or Varnas and jatis. ... The term idol (derived from Greek eid-, videre, to see. ... A guru (गà¥à¤°à¥‚ Sanskrit) is a teacher in Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism. ...
Khindri who was invited for the meeting, said the Eklavya members hardly spoke when the (former) minister in charge of the district and DPC chairperson, Ajay Narayan Mushran, said it was a unanimous decision to end the programme.
Eklavya did prepare a phase — wise introduction of the programme to other districts but the government was preoccupied with the district primary education programme (DPEP) and did not take it up.
In fact, said an Eklavya member, the government wanted to focus on middle school education from last year but it felt there was a lack of expertise to extend the HSTP to all districts.
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