The draft of the national education policy will be given a final shape by a committee headed by eminent space scientist K Kasturirangan from Bengaluru.
A technical secretariat for the policy drafting committee has been set up at the office of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC).
The committee's secretariat was inaugurated by Kasturirangan in presence of the other members of the committee at NAAC recently.
“The technical secretariat has been housed in the premises of the NAAC for the committee to be drafting the national policy,” an official said.
The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry recently notified the constitution of a nine-member committing to draft a National Education Policy.
Apart from Kasturirangan, ex-bureaucrat from Kerala and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders K J Alphonse; former member secretary of Karnataka Innovation Council and Karnataka Knowledge Commission MK Shridhar and TV Kattimani, who is vice chancellor of the Indira Gandhi National Tribal University at Amarkantak in Madhya Pradesh, are members of the committee.
Manjul Bhargava, an Indian origin professor of mathematics at Princeton University in the US and the winner of the prestigious Fields Medal in 2014 which is regarded as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics, has also been inducted to the panel as its member among others.
The HRD Ministry has engaged the university grants commission (UGC) as the nodal agency to provide all support to the policy drafting committee.
According to sources in the Ministry, the committee is likely to hold a meeting at its technical secretariat on the premises of NAAC from August 16 to August 18 to draw an outline of the draft of the new policy.
“The committee has already begun its work. The main work of drafting the policy will gain pace after the panel meets this month to work out its action plan. They are likely to hold a marathon meeting from August 16 to August 18,” sources added.
The panel has been asked to complete the exercise and submit the draft to the Government by the end of December this year.
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