The Union government is working on the New Education Policy and the first draft of the policy will come out by the year’s end. Union Human Resources Development (HRD) minister Prakash Javadekar said that the New Education Policy will come out by December end.
A nine-member panel was appointed by the HRD Ministry in June this year and is working on the New Education Policy. The panel is headed by the space scientist Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan.
The members of the panel are experts and educationists with experience and wide-range of backgrounds and are expected to recast India’s Education Policy.
Other prominent members of the panel include:
- Former IAS officer and union tourism minister K J Alphonse Kanamthanam
- Fields Medal winning mathematician Manjul Bhargava
- Alphonse played a key role in helping the Kerela’s Kottayam and Ernakulam districts achieving 100 percent literacy rate.
According to the PTI, Ram Shanker Kureel, vice chancellor of the Baba Saheb Ambedkar University of Social Sciences, Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, has wide range of experience in the field of agriculture sciences and management and is also a part of the panel.
Alphonse played a key role in helping the Kerela’s Kottayam and Ernakulam districts achieving 100 percent literacy rate.
Other members of the panel are:
- Dr M K Shridhar, former member secretary of the Karnataka State Innovation Council
- Dr T V Kattimani, an expert on language communication
- Dr Mazhar Asif, professor of Persian at Guwahati University
- Former director of education, Uttar Pradesh, Krishan Mohan Tripathi
Mr Javadekar during the press conference said ‘They have said that we can have the first draft of the policy by December end…. It will be implemented as soon as possible after it has been debated (in Parliament)’.
