Draft education policy to undergo two rounds of review before approval

National Educational Policy Chairman Dr. Kasturirangan introduced changes before the HRD ministry

New Delhi, 03 June 2019, updated 15:50 IST
It’s a matter of June 2017. With the delay in the new education policy, the Modi government was surrounded by questions. Then the Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar called the former head of ISRO Kasturirangan and made a proposal. This proposal was to lead a new national education policy committee. At that time, Javdekar had given only six months to the Kasturirangan committee. While accepting Javadekar’s proposal, Kasturirangan took charge of the committee and got ready to draft a new education policy. In order to prepare this draft recently, 74 major institutions of the country and 217 scholars have been prominently suggested.

Cover of 2.5 million villages

The Ministry of Human Resource Development has planned to get suggestions from the grassroots level to prepare the new National Policy in a wider manner. The first meeting was held in Eastern, Central, North-Eastern, Western, Southern, Northern Zone. All states were covered between September to October 2015. State ministers and officials of the state attended this meeting.

Apart from this, suggestions were also made from 2.5 lakh Gram Panchayats, 6600 blocks and 676 districts of 36 states. The Committee spoke to all types of public and private educational institutions, NGOs, key persons, technical, medical education, legal, agricultural institutions. Suggestions were also made to the MHRD, Health and Family Welfare, Women and Child Development, Skill Development, Legal Affairs, Science and Technology Ministry. Policy Commission, UNICEF was also discussed.

Review of their draft

The draft of the new National Policy, drafted by the Committee of seven people, has been reviewed. In this committee, General Secretary of the Foundation for Democratic Reforms, Hyderabad, Jai Prakash Narayan, Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru, Mr. P. Rama Rao, Former Director of NCERT, JS Rajput, Vijay Kelkar, Anirudh Deshpande, Former University of Delhi University, Dinesh Singh, Mohan Das. Five officers of the UGC gave administrative support. It included UGC’s Joint Secretary Dev Swaroop, Jitendra Kumar Tripathi, Under Secretary Tirtha Ram, Hitesh Manik, and Dwarka Prasad.

11-member committee drafted

A total 11-member committee headed by Kasturirangan, former head of ISRO, drafted National Education Policy 2019 Among them was the then minister KJ Alphonse, former Vice-Chancellor of SNDTV Women’s University Vasudha Kamat, former Vice-Chancellor Ram Shankar Kuril, Krishnamohan Tripathi, Mazhar Asif, MK Shridhar, Rajendra Pratap Gupta, Shakeela Shamsu.

Talk of minority organizations

The committee, which also constituted the Education Policy for this country, in the diversity also suggested many minority organizations. It consists of Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Jain, Parsi, and Buddhist organizations. Scheduled Castes, Tribe, Transgender, specially-abled were also spoken It was intended that each citizen and class should be given the opportunity to participate in policymaking. Online suggestions were taken from the MyGov portal.

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