New education policy will come up next year: Irani

Ending the speculations, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister  Smriti Irani has cleared that the new education policy would come up next year.

Smriti Irani told Lok Sabha that the proposed new education policy would “fructify next year”, amid a series of questions on the involvement of stakeholders from the grassroot level to frame the new policy.

“The government has undertaken an unprecedented collaborated, multi-stakeholder and multi-pronged consultation process for formulating the new education policy. (The consultation process) included online, grassroots and national level thematic deliberations,” Irani said during Question Hour.

The HRD Minister stressed that the consultative process included over 2 lakh gram panchayats, over 6,000 blocks and several urban bodies. 

Responding to a supplementary, she said results of better co-ordination between CBSE and state education boards will be seen from next year onwards. Her attention was pointed towards the different syllabi being followed by various state boards and the CBSE.