K Kasturirangan heads panel on National Education Policy

NEW DELHI: The HRD ministry has appointed a brand new nine-member panel, headed via house scientist Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, to work on a New Education Policy (NEP), assets stated.

The Prakash Javadekar-led HRD ministry has selected experts and educationists from wide-ranging backgrounds to be a part of the panel that is anticipated to recast India's schooling coverage.

Besides Kasturirangan, who headed India's house company ISRO, the panel includes former IAS officer Ok J Alphonse Kanamthanam. He had performed a key position in serving to Kerala's Kottayam and Ernakulam districts succeed in 100 percent literacy, assets stated.

Ram Shanker Kureel, vice chancellor of the Baba Saheb Ambedkar University of Social Sciences, Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, who has vast experience within the box of agriculture sciences and control, has additionally been appointed.

Dr M Ok Shridhar, former member secretary of the Karnataka State Innovation Council, Dr T V Kattimani, knowledgeable on language communique, Dr Mazhar Asif, professor of Persian at Guwahati University, and previous director of schooling, Uttar Pradesh, Krishan Mohan Tripathi additionally carry a wealth of experience to the panel, the assets stated.

Besides, the committee additionally accommodates mathematician Manjul Bhargava from Princeton University and Vasudha Kamat, former vice chancellor of Mumbai's SNDT University.


"The panel has been appointed keeping in mind that the members bring expertise related to the diverse areas of education. Significantly, the panel also reflects the diversity of the country as the members belong to different sections as well as regions," an authentic stated.


This range, the ministry hopes, would help the committee perceive the assorted problems that must be stored in mind for the components of any such key coverage record, he added.


"The panelists belong to different age groups which should be helpful as they would be able to bring experience, innovation and also global exposure which are so vital for such an important policy formulation."


The HRD ministry had a few years in the past formed a panel below former cupboard secretary T S R Subramanian on the New Education Policy. Sources stated inputs from the Subramanian panel record would even be utilised.
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