{"id":2975,"date":"2017-06-27T12:24:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T06:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2017-06-30T12:32:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T07:02:51","slug":"key-highlights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-highlights-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About National Education Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Eminent scientist and former <strong>Chief of ISRO<\/strong>, <strong> K. Kasturirangan<\/strong> has been appointed the Chairman of an eight-member committee which has the task to prepare the final draft of the <strong>National Education Policy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>National Policy on Education\u00a0(NPE)<\/strong> is a\u00a0policy\u00a0formulated by the\u00a0Government of India\u00a0to <strong>promote education <\/strong>amongst India&#8217;s people. The policy covers elementary education to colleges in both rural and urban India.<\/li>\n<li>The first NPE was promulgated in <strong>1968<\/strong> by the government of\u00a0<strong>Prime Minister\u00a0Indira Gandhi<\/strong>, and the second by Prime <strong>Minister\u00a0Rajiv Gandhi<\/strong>in 1986.<\/li>\n<li>The committee comprises eight members, apart from the chairperson. The members of the panel are<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vasudha Kamat<\/strong> ,Vice-Chancellor of SNDP University, Mumbai, and educationist<\/li>\n<li><strong>J. Alphonse<\/strong>, Retired bureaucrat<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professor Manjul Bhargava <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ram Shankar Kureel <\/strong>,Vice-Chancellor of Ambedkar University of Social Sciences<\/li>\n<li><strong>V. Kattamani<\/strong> ,Vice-Chancellor of Tribal University, Amarkantak<\/li>\n<li><strong>M. Tripathy <\/strong>from Uttar Pradesh<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mahzar Asif<\/strong>, Professor of Persian, Guwahati University<\/li>\n<li><strong>K. Shridhara<\/strong> CABE member<\/li>\n<li>In\u00a0a comprehensive democratic exercise carried out for over 30 months, the <strong>Ministry of<\/strong> <strong>Human Resource Development<\/strong> has received thousands of suggestions from various sources<\/li>\n<li>Consultations were held at tehsil, district and State level moreover, on <strong>MyGov<\/strong> platform alone, <strong>26,000<\/strong> people gave their views online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India became one of <strong>135 countries<\/strong> to make education a fundamental right of every child when the Act came into force on <strong>1 April 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0National Policy on Education\u00a0(NPE) is a\u00a0policy\u00a0formulated by the\u00a0Government of India\u00a0to promote education amongst India&#8217;s people. The policy covers elementary education to colleges in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/key-highlights-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About National Education Policy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kb","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704716200},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}