Last updated: January 12, 2023, 4:18 PM IST
A committee of experts set up in West Bengal to examine the national education policy for 2020 has submitted its findings to the education department (representative image)
The panelist also said the department will issue an official response after careful review of the recommendations made
A committee of experts set up in West Bengal to examine the national education policy for 2020 has submitted its findings to the education department, one of its members said on Wednesday.
Constituted in the first week of April 2022, the panel includes Columbia University Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jadavpur University Vice-Chancellor Professor Suranjan Das and Harvard University Professor Sugata Bose.
Yes, each member’s comments have been collected and forwarded to the Principal Secretary of the Education Department for consideration. The department is in the process of evaluating the same,” the senior academic told PTI.
The panelist also said the department will issue an official response after careful review of the recommendations made.
It may also seek further guidance from other experts on certain aspects, he added.
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Education Minister Bratya Basu had told PTI on Tuesday that the experts on the committee will guide the state if and when the NEP is implemented.
”These are all reputable individuals who are internationally known for their achievements (committee members). They have made us proud, our state proud. They will guide us (on) which part of the NEP should be implemented and which part should be discarded,” he had said. The Union government had approved NEP 2020 on July 29, 2020, replacing the 34-year-old National Education Policy of 1986.
Under the draft policy, students must take school exams in grades 3, 5 and 8, which are administered by the appropriate authority. Board exams for grades 10 and 12 will be redesigned.
Basu had previously criticized the formulation of a new learning pattern without confiding in the states.
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