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Citing its “rather exemplary” implementation of the Union government’s National Education Policy, 2020, a House sheet connected Monday (December 8, 2025) recommended that the University Grants Commission see designation to the Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh, (HIAL), founded by Ladakh pedagogue and activistic Sonam Wangchuk, who was successful this September detained nether the National Security Act aft protests successful Ladakh for tribal presumption turned violent.
The departmentally related Parliamentary Standing Committee connected Education successful the Rajya Sabha, headed by Congress MP Digvijaya Singh, connected Monday tabled a study connected a reappraisal of autonomous bodies and institutions nether the Union Ministry of Education’s Department of Higher Education.
In this report, among its recommendations, the House sheet dedicated a paragraph to its sojourn to Ladakh.
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“During its survey sojourn to Ladakh, the committee was impressed with the academic, research, and entrepreneurship ecosystem astatine the HIAL, particularly its occurrence successful implementing experiential acquisition and learning rooted successful section socio-cultural and ecological contexts.” The panel, however, noted its “concern” that the UGC had not recognised the institute contempt the substance remaining pending for “many years”.
The House sheet said the institute had “achieved tremendous interaction connected the section assemblage and received planetary fame done its crystal stupas and different assemblage engagement activities”.
It added that the institute’s “experiential and project-based learning, assemblage engagement, and integration of Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS)” was a “rather exemplary implementation of the NEP 2020, which calls for specified measures.”
The committee besides encouraged the UGC and the Department of Higher Education to “closely survey the HIAL model” and see however this tin beryllium replicated elsewhere done Centres of Innovation successful Education oregon akin interventions.
