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Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan connected Friday (January 9, 2026) chaired a consultative gathering with representatives of State governments and experts connected the adjacent signifier of the Centre’s Samagra Shiksha schoolhouse acquisition programme, with the Minister noting that it was “essential to erstwhile again entrust schools to society” truthful that the holistic improvement of students tin beryllium promoted and their entree to cognition expanded done “meaningful integration of technology”.
At the gathering held successful Delhi, which was co-chaired by Skills Development Minister Jayant Chaudhary, discussions focused connected champion practices, emerging challenges, and precedence interventions needed to fortify schoolhouse governance, infrastructure, teacher training, and pupil entitlements.
Officials told The Hindu that the Union Education Ministry suggested to summation nationalist information successful schoolhouse absorption committees, whereas State representatives sought further enactment for teacher grooming and capableness gathering arsenic they were having difficulties achieving the State objectives of the ongoing 2nd signifier of the Samagra Shiksha programme. Mr. Pradhan said that portion salaries of teachers and systems should beryllium the work of the government, cognition of the schools themselves should beryllium the work of society.
‘Beyond the Macaulay mindset’
Mr. Pradhan said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imaginativeness of a Viksit Bharat by 2047 tin beryllium achieved lone erstwhile each kid successful India has entree to prime education, and the state achieves a 100% schoolhouse enrolment ratio up to Class XII. “Bridging learning gaps, reducing dropouts, improving nutrition outcomes, strengthening teacher capacity, fostering captious skills, and moving the ‘Amrit Peedhi’ beyond the Macaulay mindset are corporate responsibilities for gathering a beardown quality superior base,” helium said.
School Education Secretary Sanjay Kumar added that determination was a request to amended learning outcomes, and stressed the request for program equivalence crossed State boards. He besides touched upon the value of integrating technology, peculiarly Artificial Intelligence (AI), into the schoolhouse program arsenic a “key constituent of Samgara Shiksha”.
The gathering was attended by apical officials of the Union Education Ministry, acquisition secretaries successful State and U.T. governments, task directors of Samagra Shiksha from 11 States and Union Territories, representatives of different allied Union ministries, and eminent experts from the acquisition sector.
In a station connected societal media, Mr. Pradhan said, “This collaborative effort contiguous and the pioneering ideas astatine this forum volition pave the mode for charting a wide roadworthy representation for holistically strengthening our schoolhouse acquisition ecosystem, aligning them with the extremity of Viksit Bharat and re-imagining Samagra Shiksha strategy for gathering an acquisition ecosystem that is outcome-oriented, globally-competitive, rooted successful Bharatiyata and that which caters to the divers needs of our students.”
After 5 years of implementing the National Education Policy 2020, India is present “entering a caller signifier of acquisition betterment with nationalist improvement goals”, the Education Minister said, urging each stakeholders to travel unneurotic to hole a robust and holistic yearly program for the world twelvemonth 2026-27 and instrumentality it guardant arsenic a nationwide movement.
The Minister added that the government’s absorption indispensable spell “beyond achieving specified prime and equity”. “We indispensable alteration Samagra Shiksha from a wide entree strategy to an outcome-driven, quality-focused model aligned with the objectives of NEP 2020,” helium said.
