About National Policy on Education

• Eminent scientist and former Chief of ISRO, K. Kasturirangan has been appointed the Chairman of an eight-member committee which has the task to prepare the final draft of the National Education Policy.
• The National Policy on Education (NPE) is a policy formulated by the Government of India to promote education amongst India’s people. The policy covers elementary education to colleges in both rural and urban India.
• The first NPE was promulgated in 1968 by the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and the second by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhiin 1986.
• The committee comprises eight members, apart from the chairperson. The members of the panel are
• Vasudha Kamat ,Vice-Chancellor of SNDP University, Mumbai, and educationist
• J. Alphonse, Retired bureaucrat
• Professor Manjul Bhargava
• Ram Shankar Kureel ,Vice-Chancellor of Ambedkar University of Social Sciences
• V. Kattamani ,Vice-Chancellor of Tribal University, Amarkantak
• M. Tripathy from Uttar Pradesh
• Mahzar Asif, Professor of Persian, Guwahati University
• K. Shridhara CABE member
• In a comprehensive democratic exercise carried out for over 30 months, the Ministry of Human Resource Development has received thousands of suggestions from various sources
• Consultations were held at tehsil, district and State level moreover, on MyGov platform alone, 26,000 people gave their views online.

India became one of 135 countries to make education a fundamental right of every child when the Act came into force on 1 April 2010