Kasturirangan committee submits new draft education policy to HRD Ministry

Former ISRO chief Dr. Kasturirangan led Committee submitted the draft National Educational Policy (NEP) to HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank in New Delhi yesterday. 

The policy draft recommends incorporation of Indian knowledge systems in the curriculum, constituting a National Education Commission and curbing arbitrary fees hikes by private schools. 

The expert panel also proposed massive transformation in



Teacher Education by moving all teacher preparation and education programmes into large multidisciplinary universities or colleges. 

It added that the topics will include Indian contribution to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, psychology, yoga, architecture, medicine, as well as governance, polity, society, and conservation course on Indian knowledge systems. 

The existing NEP was framed in 1986 and revised in 1992.