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E
VEN THOUGH EDUCATION DAY CELEBRATIONS WERE LOW KEY
affair this year, still there is a reason to feel good about some developments in
country's education sector. First of all, with formation of a committee to draft the
New Education Policy, for the first time in nine month's time, this important
national task has a face though the people chosen in the committee don't lead to
much inspiration. It is laden with bureaucrats and perhaps the lone educationist, J S
Rajput doesn't enjoy much credibility given his past. But nevertheless, the
government has woken up to the fact that policy making and that too for education
is not a child's play and populism doesn't work here.
Whatever token consultation process that might have taken place need microanalysis, which in itself would be a huge challenge before the committee. It will
actually take the sincerity and hardwork of the kind that Justice J S Verma and his
team put in dealing with teacher education and produced a 'classic' report. Given
that the new policy is coming after such a long gap and would be in reckoning for a
long future time period again, the responsibility of the committee would
encompass strategic thinking, and aligning education goals with national as well
global socio-economic and cultural development requirements. Reports have been
surfacing time and again that science education as well as history is being distorted
by some states ideologically. New Policy must end that scope once for all. Let there
be a provision for an academic council at state level as well as a mechanism to field
test text books before being commissioned. Such a framework can