The new education policy for Haryana would be finalised soon. A Conference of Education Ministers of North Indian States would be held on October 31 in Gurgaon under the chairpersonship of Union Minister for Human Resource Development Smriti Irani and the new education policy would be finalized in this conference, said Haryana Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma on Monday.
While addressing a press conference at Jhajjar, he said that wide range discussions were held in all 6,072 villages of the state on the draft of new education policy and two lakh people had shared their suggestions on it.
The Minister said that the draft of New Education Policy is ready and approval would be given after discussion in the conference which would be held in Gurgaon.
He said that the policy of previous UPA Government not to fail any student from Class I to VIII had resulted in deteriorating the level of education.
The Minister said that the present State Government has decided to restore the previous system. He added that
absence of regular assessment in schools was impediment to growth of students; therefore, it was necessary to restore the previous system.