Bengaluru : Karnataka will implement the new National Education Policy (NEP) from August after merging a draft state policy with it, a minister said on Friday. “In two weeks’ time, the NEP and a state policy would be merged to bring out a separate policy for Karnataka,” said Primary and Secondary Education Minister S. Suresh Kumar.
Kumar revealed these plans in a video conference he had with NEP draft committee chairman Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan.
He said the state will be at the forefront in implementing the policy systematically and observed that NEP is a complete policy.
The Karnataka government has already passed a resolution accepting the Central government’s National Education Policy and held a meeting on how to implement it.
“A resolution was passed accepting the NEP,” said Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Higher Education, C.N. Ashwath Narayan.
He held a meeting with the members of the ‘Task Force on the Implementation of NEP 2020′.
According to the minister, the task force will present a plan of action on August 16 and a detailed plan of action on August 20.
The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved the NEP 2020, making way for large-scale, transformational reforms in school and higher education sectors.
As the first education policy of the millennium, it will replace the 34-year-old National Policy on Education (NPE), 1986.
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