The new education policy draft is likely to be delivered to the Centre by October 31, 2018.
The draft is expected to focus on the rationalization of school curriculum to reduce academic load of the students and create more time for sports for them and snip off overlapping regulations, according to a report by Times of India.
The draft has been through four extensions, and finally it has been finalized.
Its particular focus would be on Indian Languages, sports and mathematics, for overlapping and multiple regulatory mechanisms in higher education and strengthening the public institution.
It will be examined by the Ministry of Human Resource Development after its submission to check any addition or deletion required in the draft before presenting it to the Parliament.
The education policy in place was framed in 1986 and was revised in 1992, hence the revision is significant.
As the new national education policy (NEP) was an election promise by the government of Modi, there has been a question mark raised on the repeated delays, including the setting up of new committee under the former chief of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), K Kasturirangan in June 2017.
The question repeatedly hampered is that whether or not the draft will be adopted before the government ends its term in May, 2019.
However the policy has been framed with a 20-year-vision (2020-2040), according to the reliable sources in the government.
The draft policy could be presented in Parliament in the winter session as per an earlier report of TOI.
After the third deadline of August 31 was extended in July 2018, the deadline for the committee tasked with drafting the NEP was rescheduled to October 31, 2018.
When Smriti Irani was the HRD Minister, the task of drafting of NEP was initially entrusted to the former cabinet secretary TSR Subramanian- headed panel.
The draft was submitted by the committee in 2016. But after the HRD minister Prakash Javadekar took charge and the Kasturirangan committee along with eight members was set up by the government in 2017, the draft was asked to be framed taking inputs from the Subramanian committee report.
The new policy is already initiated by the government which will be in sync with many reforms according to the sources.
