NEW DELHI: Five months after first mooting the idea of a new national school board on the lines of CBSE to “Indianise” education, yoga guru Baba Ramdev has sent a detailed proposal to Union human resource development minister Smriti Irani Ramdev’s close associate Acharya Balkrishna met Irani in Delhi last month to discuss the proposal and submit a report on the yoga guru’s behalf.Speaking exclusively to ET, Balkrishna said he met the minister on April 9. The proposed board will allow affiliated schools to offer a blend of the traditional ‘gurukul’ system and modern education, he added.“This is not just our view. We have done a lot of research and found that several consultations of the government with the states and other consultative bodies such as CABE (Central Advisory Board of Education) have found that there is a need for an education system that is a mix of modern curriculum and Indian culture and values. We have collected all of these suggestions to make a strong case for our idea,” said Balkrishna.ET could not reach Irani for a comment despite repeated attempts. School education secretary Vrinda Sarup did not respond to ET’s calls and SMSes.Ramdev, in an interview with ET on October 30, 2014, had first said that the Modi government should start a new national school board on the lines of the Central Board of Secondary Education or CBSE. The yoga guru had even suggested a working name for the board — Bhartiya Board of Secondary Education or BBSE.According to Balkrishna the proposal is based on the model followed by Acharyakulam, the school run by Ramdev in Haridwar that was inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi in April 2013, when he was the Gujarat CM. It has about 400 boys and girls in classes five to seven studying Sanskrit, the Vedas and the Shastras along with the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) curriculum prescribed by most school boards in the country.One of the arguments given in favour of the new education board is that it will benefit the existing educational institutions such as RSS-run Vidya Bharti schools and gurukuls run by Arya Samaj which will be able to sustain their “Indian” model of education up to class XII.Balkrishna said the HRD minister’s reaction to the idea was encouraging. “Sarkar ka attitude kaafi positive hai. Woh (Irani) hamein bahut pyaar se milin aur hamari baat ko samjha. Ab yeh sirf karne waali baat hai (The government’sattitudeispositive. We had a nice meeting with the minister in which she gave us a good hearing. Now it’s just a matter of implementation),” he added.