"Universal Human Values (UHV) is the need of the hour as India is in its developing phase… Holistic, Value-based Education is important to prepare our youth with a holistic vision of life, along with good technical skills”, Prof. TG Sitharam, Chairman AICTE, 30 July 2023.

“AICTE has produced this document as a broad framework of ‘Universal Human Values for Holistic Value-based Education’… It will help our teachers and faculty across school and higher education to understand the concepts of value-based education in detail and learn strategies to implement in classroom practices…”, Sh. Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon’ble Minister of Education, Government of India, 9 June 2022.

“UHV has been a game-changing work ongoing from AICTE since 2017…”, Prof. Anil D Sahasrabudhe, then Chairman AICTE, 30 April 2022.
This UHV input represents the bare minimum requirement. He said, “If we successfully implement it in our college and university, gradually expanding it to the entire state and our nation, we can confidently share this achievement with the rest of the world... UHV has the potential to bring peace, and prosperity for mankind and the planet”, Prof. Anil D Sahasrabudhe, Chairman NEFT, Chairman Executive Committee NAAC, 20th April 2024 at VTU Belagavi.

“I attended a 3-day workshop of [universal] human values last year [2017]… I strongly believe the values this course covers are the same values as the principles underlying the concept of Gross National Happiness… Now, more than ever, this [UHV] program has to be integrated into our education system… reforms in education systems the world over, is necessary to have, to bring back our sanity and our humanity”, Her Majesty, the Queen Mother of Bhutan, Gyelyum Tseyring Pem Wangchuck, April 2018.

“If the education is right, the resulting society will be harmonious and fearless; otherwise, it is just a crowd or even a battlefield where man’s greatest fear is the inhuman conduct of man… I have been actively looking for how to do this for the last 12 years. This human values teaching [UHV] can create a harmonious society. I am convinced that this has to become the basis/core of education in the Royal University of Bhutan. I am assured that this is within reach and it can be done”, Dasho Pema Thinley, then Vice Chancellor Royal University of Bhutan, 26 April 2013.

“I attended a 3-day workshop of [universal] human values last year [2017]… I strongly believe the values this course covers are the same values as the principles underlying the concept of Gross National Happiness… Now, more than ever, this [UHV] program has to be integrated into our education system… reforms in education systems the world over, is necessary to have, to bring back our sanity and our humanity”, Her Majesty, the Queen Mother of Bhutan, Gyelyum Tseyring Pem Wangchuck, April 2018.