Is India ready to incorporate Sex education in Academic curricula

Abstract

Indian society is changing very rapidly. A fearsome scene is being created with the spread of STD/AIDS/HIV. As current data is also speaking that20% population of the world is adolescent and out of which 88% are from developing countries. India has about 243 million adolescent and more than 50% lying in urban area. What so ever be the reason, for those STD/HIV/AIDS are becoming like a death. Religious declaration about sex discussion is a non-righteous matter or simple talk. Our future generation is gradually falling in trap of this S.T.D. Our Rajya Sabha committee on petition-2009 in his 157 th report has recommended that youth should be made a wave of marriageable age which is 21 years in case of boys whereas 18 years in case of girls and any indulgence in sex outside the institution of marriage was against the social ethics. It also recommended for evolving consensus on the implementation of sex education in school.Once it is introduced our teachersas well as educators must remain ready to get it implemented. Hence our educators must be trained properly to meet the challenge of sex education. HIV/AIDS/STD have spread like epidemic in North East of India and moving fastly in rest part also. Hence through well trained and responsible educatorsthe knowledge or training regarding values, attitudes can be impart on which successful family life and social order depends.