West Bengal government to have its own education policy.
Highlights
- Tussle between Union govt & Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal govt has now reached education part
- Education Minister Bratya Basu introduced that the state govt has determined to formulate its own SEP
- He stated they won’t implement the Union government formulated National Education Policy
The tussle between the Union government and the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government has now reached the education part.
State Education Minister, Bratya Basu, on Thursday (April 7) introduced that the state government has determined to formulate its own State Education Policy (SEP) and never implement the Union government formulated National Education Policy.
“The Union government, like many other aspects, are trying to force the NEP on the different state governments. However, we are not agreeable to that and hence we have decided to formulate the state’s own education policy,” he informed media.
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A ten-member committee has been constituted to give a report on this depend inside the subsequent two months. This contains Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, the famous school from Colombia University, historian and former Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member, Sugata Basu, former Vice Chancellor of Calcutta University, Suranjan Das and Sanskrit language specialist, Nrishinha Prasad Bhaduri, amongst others.
Sources from the state Education Department informed information company IANS the committee, earlier than submitting the stated report inside the subsequent two months, will even research the impartial education insurance policies pursued by the non-BJP state government like these in Maharashtra and Kerala.
Bhaduri stated that the state government has each proper to have its own education policy. “Anyway, it is a welcome move. A country like India with such diversity of culture and huge population can never have a uniform pan- India national education policy,” he stated.
According to arguments of the Union government, the nationwide education policy goals to improve the Gross Enrolment Ratio in greater education together with vocational education from 26.3 per cent (2018) to 50 per cent by 2035.
(With IANS inputs)Â
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