Indian Knowledge System (IKS)

Knowledge is passed down systematically from one generation to the next through the Indian Knowledge System (IKS). Rather from being a custom, it is an organized system and a method of knowledge transfer. The Vedic literature, the Upanishads, the Vedas, and the Upvedas form the foundation of the Indian Knowledge System. The National Education Policy, or NEP-2020, takes as its guiding premise the rich legacy of timeless Indian knowledge and philosophy. The Jnan, Vignan, and Jeevan Darshan knowledge systems of India have developed from experience, observation, experimentation, and thorough analysis. Our education, arts, administration, law, justice, health, manufacturing, and commerce have all been touched by this legacy of validating and putting into practice. This has had an impact on Bharat's classical and other languages that were passed down through creative, oral, and literary traditions. It encompasses knowledge of ancient India, its achievements and difficulties, as well as an understanding of India's future goals with regard to ecology, health, education, and really every facet of existence.

Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) is an innovative cell under Ministry of Education (MoE) at AICTE, New Delhi. It is established to promote interdisciplinary research on all aspects of IKS, preserve and disseminate IKS for further research and societal applications. It will actively engage for spreading the rich heritage of our country and traditional knowledge in the field of Arts and literature, Agriculture, Basic Sciences, Engineering & Technology, Architecture, Management, Economics etc.

The Indian knowledge system seeks to encourage and enable more study in a number of areas, including holistic health, psychology, neuroscience, nature, the environment, and sustainable development, in order to address current societal problems. The main goal of learning from the past and integrating Indian knowledge systems is to use our ancient knowledge systems, which are characterized by an unbroken tradition of knowledge transfer and a distinctive point of view, to solve current and emerging problems in India and the world (Bhāratiyu Drishti).

The primary role of the IKS division is to encourage private sector organizations to get involved in IKS-based and related multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary work being done by numerous universities, national importance institutions, R&D labs, and ministries both in India and overseas. The other is to form, direct, and oversee multidisciplinary research groups focused on certain subjects, made up of researchers from various institutes, centers, and individuals. In addition, popularization campaigns should be developed and promoted, funding for different projects should be made easier, procedures for doing research should be established, and policy suggestions should be developed as needed to advance IKS.

To promote interdisciplinary research on all aspects of “Indian Knowledge Systems”, preserve and disseminate “Indian Knowledge Systems” for further research and societal applications.