The Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) has extended the deadline for the public comments on the National Education Policy (NEP) draft. According to the HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal, public and the stakeholders will now have until July 31, 2019, to present their suggestions on the NEP.
Earlier, the deadline to submit the reviews was June 30, 2019.
"The report (on the draft NEP) has been put on a public domain for suggestions. The draft has been prepared after discussions at all levels. And the date for submitting comments will be extended by a month," Mr Pokhriyal said during the Question Hour in the Upper House.
The minister was responding to a question asked by the Trinamool Congress member Derek O' Brien that if the committee prepared the draft of the NEP without holding any meetings and discussions.
Meanwhile, the Student Federation of India (SFI), a left-wing student body, has said that the policy is against the provisions of the Constitution of India. SFI also said that the NEP fails to recognize the educational backwardness of a large section of the Indian society.
Replying to another query about the implementation of the 25 percent reservation for the EWS in private schools, the minister said that the provision was placed in 2009 but was implemented effectively from 2014 onwards. As a result, the enrolment under the private schools have gone up from 18 lakh children in 2014 to 41 lakh children in 2018.
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