Smriti Irani, minister of the Union Human Resource Development, has indicated on Friday, that the report on The National Education Policy Reform must not be made public unless the states’ views have been taken into consideration, in opposition to the demand of TSR Subramanian who led the panel to suggest reforms to the policy. In her defence, Irani quoted that she will not let this” education policy become an attempt to become the legacy of one individual who seeks headlines”.
She believes that the recommendations have to be shared with the states first before it is made a draft policy, in response to TSR Subramanian saying that he will make the policy public if the government fails to do so. She is staunch in her standing alongside the state governments whom she promised a voice in the draft policy. In fact, the dismissal of Infosys chairman, R Seshasayee, HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh and Hero Moto Corp CMD Pawan Munjal for the post of chairperson of IIM Ahmedabad by her ministry was supported by Smriti Irani who thinks that it is the right of the institutions to propose names and giving valid reasons for their nominations. Failing to do so can give the Union Ministry the right to question the authority via the Joint Secretary level interface with the ministry.
In another major step towards realizing her goal for altering the syllabi followed by the schools, The ministry has invited experts from the world over and that too from extremely prestigious universities such as MIT, Cambridge, UC Berkley, University of Pennsylvania, University of Edinburgh to name a few. These experts have been roped in by the Rashtriya Ucchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) to upgrade the curriculum in social sciences, sciences, mathematics and engineering.
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