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A government-commissioned committee set up to draft a new education policy is learnt to have recommended introduction of National Academic Services for recruitment of teachers.
The panel, headed by former cabinet secretary T S R Subramanian, has also suggested overhauling the current system of recruitment of vice chancellors, taking note of loopholes in the existing process for such appointments and past irregularities.
The committee, which is giving final shape to a new education policy, is likely to submit its final report to the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry later this month, official sources privy to the developments told DH.
The draft is prepared based on the suggestion and feedback received through nationwide consultations at different levels.
The committee members held a meeting with HRD Minister Smriti Irani last week and discussed the major highlights of the draft being finalised by them.
They held a day-long meeting at its temporary office, provided at National University of Educational Planning and Administration premises, as part of the finalisation of its report.
“The committee is almost ready with its draft report. It will submit the report very soon,” official sources said.
The committee members, however, remained tightlipped over the recommendation made in the report.
“Let the report be submitted to the ministry. It will share the content with media,” one of the members in the panel said.
The idea to introduce an Indian Education Service was first mooted in the late 1980s when P V Narasimha Rao was the HRD Minister. A study was also conducted at that time, but it was never followed up.
During the previous regime, senior Congress leader and the then HRD Minister, Kabil Sibal, also made a strong pitch for introduction of Indian Educational Services on the lines of other civil services and even set up a group of experts to suggest measures for it.
But, this too, got lost into the government files.
The HRD Ministry had set up a 5-member panel last year to prepare a draft of new national education policy, initiating the mega exercise after a gap of 29 years, with the BJP led NDA coming to power at the Centre in 2014.
Shailaja Chandra, former Delhi chief secretary, Sewaram Sharma, former Delhi home secretary, Sudhir Mankad, former Gujarat chief secretary and J S Rajput, former director of the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) are members in the drafting committee. Gaps in system
* The draft is prepared based on the suggestion and feedback received through nationwide consultations at different levels.
* The idea to introduce an Indian Education Service was first mooted in the late 1980s when P V Narasimha Rao was the HRD Minister
* During the previous regime, senior Congress leader and the then HRD Minister, Kabil Sibal, also made a strong pitch for introduction of Indian Educational Services on the lines of other civil services.
* The HRD Ministry had set up a 5-member panel last year to prepare a draft of new national education policy
* The HRD Ministry initiated the mega exercise after a gap of 29 years, with the BJP led NDA coming to power at the Centre in 2014