Highlighting the draft of the policy of education on Friday, Vice Chancellor of Birsa Agricultural University (BAU), Dr. Ram Shankar Kuril highlighted the main points of school education, higher education, technical education, professional education, additional key focus areas, changes in education, implementation of education policy and future steps.
Kuril said this while giving a lecture on the National Education Policy-2019 as a keynote speech at a seminar organised in Mumbai.
Dr. Kuril said that the draft National Education Policy has been prepared to face challenges in changing scenario of quality education, innovation and research requirements. “In this format, it has been envisaged to equip the students with the necessary skills and knowledge and to remove the shortage of human resources in science, technology, academic and industry and to establish the nation as a knowledge super power,” he added.
He informed that in the year 2015, the Central Human Resource Development Ministry constituted a committee for the consultative process on the new education policy. After testing all the suggestions in December 2018, draft was prepared. New education policy format covers all people’s accessibility, equality, quality, affordability and accountability-related objectives such as accountability.
Dr. Kuril is a member of the National Education Policy - 2019 format committee. He was speaking at a national seminar organised by Think India and KJ Somaiya College of Arts and Commerce, Mumbai. On the occasion, the organising secretary honored the Vice Chancellor. This event was attended by Professor VN Rajasekharan Pillai, Veena Sanekar and Chirag Jain of Think India.