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N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla W
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan ith former space scientist Dr. K. Kasturirangan, chair-
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, man of the nine-member committee which authored the
Krishan Khanna, Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, 484-page Draft National Education Policy, 2019 which
Kirit Mehta, Balkishan Sharma (Mumbai); Dr.
Ramdas Pai (Manipal); Prof. Geeta Kingdon translated into the 66-page National Education Policy
(Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. Parth Shah, Jeroninio (NEP) 2020, having unobtrusively accepted the position
Almeida, Premchand Palety (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); of chairman of a steering committee to implement NEP 2020, the speed of
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta overdue reform of India’s moribund education system is accelerating.
(Bhubaneswar); Shyama Thakore (London)
Last October, the Union education ministry formally launched the Na-
EDITOR tional Curriculum Framework for Foundational Stage 2022 detailing ways
Dilip Thakore and means to incorporate vitally important professionally administered early
MANAGING EDITOR childhood care and education — which your editors have been stridently
Summiya Yasmeen advocating since 2010 — into the new 5+3+3+4 school education system.
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR Moreover, it’s a welcome development that implementation of the Kas-
Sundar Anand turirangan Committee’s root and branch reforms in higher education — the
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi other end of the learning spectrum — has also gathered momentum. As
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi) reported by our Delhi-based correspondent Autar Nehru (see p.18), Prof.
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