pune the union government plans to take up a review of social work institutes to understand what is being imparted and the output among other matters along with some other nonmainstream courses vinay sahasrabudhe chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on education women children and youth sports said on monday sahasrabudhe also the president of indian council for cultural relations was speaking after a function on national education policy at savitribai phule pune universityaccording to him the education system has many areas that are not considered part of the mainstream even now arts science commerce engineering and medical courses are considered mainstream take the example of architecture and town planning where we have very few planners if there are 10 different reasons for the problems faced by any city one of them will be lack of proper planning we need to focus on this we will review town planning and architecture education similarly there are areas that need attention such as education in fine arts performing arts and visual arts now we have studied that to an extent and are finalising our report another area is social work of the total social work institutes in the country 70 are in maharashtra what social work are we teaching what is happening to them nobody has focused on them we will review them he saidsahasrabudhe appreciated the maharashtra governments initiative to reduce the weight of school bags by introducing a single textbook for all subjects for one term he said he would recommend this plan to the centre via the parliamentary committeethe state education department had come up with a one book system on a pilot basis starting this year according to this some schools in the state have integrated books for their std i students the entire years syllabus was divided into four sections and for each term one book containing all four subjects was developed this ensures that the student is carrying only one textbook at a time which will greatly reduce the weight of the school bag and also ensure that the student gets to study all subjects every day an official from balbharati said