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Volume X XIII No.7

BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla W
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto,
Krishan Khanna, Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, ork on formulating the National Education Policy (NEP)
Kirit Mehta, Balkishan Sharma (Mumbai); Dr.
Ramdas Pai (Manipal); Dr. Geeta Kingdon 2020 presented to the nation after an interregnum of 34
(Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. Parth Shah, Jeroninio years, began in 2016 when the TSR Subramanian Com-
Almeida, Premchand Palety (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); mittee working at manic speed, presented the first draft. Evidently, the com-
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta mittee’s report to liberalise and deregulate the education sector on the lines of
(Bhubaneswar); Shyama Thakore (London)
liberalisation of the Indian economy in 1991, was unpalatable to the Bharatiya
EDITOR Janata Party (BJP) which had swept to power in New Delhi in 2014 with a
Dilip Thakore massive majority in Parliament.
MANAGING EDITOR In 2017, a nine-member committee under the chairmanship of space
Summiya Yasmeen scientist Dr. K. Kasturirangan was constituted to formulate another draft. In
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR end-2018, the Kasturirangan Committee submitted its 484-page report to the
Sundar Anand BJP government which was re-elected in 2019 with an even greater majority in
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament. Subsequently, NEP, approved
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi) by the Union cabinet, was presented to Parliament and the nation on July 29,
9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) 2020.
9500506102, Dipta Joshi (Mumbai) 9920243111 NEP 2020 proposes radical reform of post-independence India’s moribund
CHIEF EXECUTIVE pre-primary to Ph D education system. But to attain this laudable and overdue
Bhavin Shah +91 9867382867 objective, NEP 2020 proposes greater instead of lesser, government supervi-
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South India: Poonam Shah 9731966373 Indian education needs greater or lesser government regulation aside, the
North: Hannan Ahmed 9810302768 ground reality is that two years on, most of these supervisory committees and
GRAPHICS bodies have not been constituted. Moreover, there’s considerable suspense
Suresh K. about who will be the “academics of unimpeachable integrity” appointed to
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Kiran Kumar: 9108225694/ Against this backdrop, the stubborn refusal of Union education minister
080 43711141 Dharmendra Pradhan to defend and clarify NEP 2020 is deplorable. Minister:
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