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The State authorities has appointed a five-member adept committee headed by the Principal Secretary of the Higher Education Department to analyse and instrumentality the recommendations related to higher acquisition successful the State Education Policy (SEP) last report, submitted to the authorities by the SEP Commission.
The vice-president of the Karnataka State Higher Education Council, the Commissioner of the Department of Collegiate and Technical Education and the Director of the Department of Technical Education are members of the committee, and the Special Officer of the Higher Education Department is the member-secretary.
The adept committee has been fixed 2 weeks’ clip to taxable its study to the government.
However, educationists person objected to the information that nary adept committee has been formed to instrumentality the recommendations related to schoolhouse education. “It is doubtful that the SEP volition beryllium implemented comprehensively,” 1 of them said.
The SEP Commission, headed by eminent educationist Sukhdeo Thorat, submitted the last study of the State Education Policy consisting of 2,197 pages to the authorities connected August 9, 2025. The study made a full of 26 large recommendations related to superior education, 52 to higher acquisition and 20 recommendations to nonrecreational education.
“The National Education Policy (NEP-2020) implemented by the Union authorities contains unscientific elements that are detrimental to the national strategy and are against the Constitution and democracy. A azygous acquisition strategy is not suitable for our multi-religious, multi-lingual and multi-cultural country. A caller acquisition argumentation volition beryllium formulated that includes social, taste and economical realities to uphold the individuality of the State, instrumentality higher acquisition to a planetary level, supply job-based acquisition to students and empower the younker socially and economically,” reads the order.
“As per the interim study submitted to the authorities by the SEP Commission, an bid has been issued with due guidelines regarding the duration and syllabus of grade programmes successful universities and colleges nether the jurisdiction of the Higher Education Department from the twelvemonth 2024-25,” the bid said.
Further, it stated that the authorities needs to instrumentality an due determination aft examining the recommendations successful the last study fixed to the authorities by the SEP connected social, educational, legal, administrative, economical issues and the draught actionable points, timeline, argumentation changes and amendments, liable departments and funding.
Cut for print: * “Therefore, the pursuing adept committee has been constituted to thoroughly analyse the aspects related to the Higher Education Department successful this study and hole a little study to the authorities truthful that it tin beryllium presented earlier the Cabinet,” it added.
The SEP Commission has made 26 large recommendations related to schoolhouse education, including the two-language policy, Kannada/mother lingua mean of acquisition up to people 5 successful each committee schools and others. Educationists person objected to the authorities determination of not making immoderate proposals regarding the implementation of the recommendations for schoolhouse education.
“Currently, the NEP has been rejected successful the State and the authorities has taken steps to instrumentality the SEP. There is nary acquisition argumentation successful beingness successful the State astatine present. But determination is nary motion of the SEP being implemented comprehensively arsenic the authorities is moving up with the implementation of the SEP lone successful higher education,” they said.
Niranjanaradhya. V.P., improvement educationist, said, “Nearly 30 task unit committees had worked hard for astir 2 and fractional years to germinate a holistic State Education Policy. The argumentation study should beryllium implemented successful missive and tone alternatively of implementing it successful bits and pieces. The argumentation recommendations portion could person been placed successful the Cabinet for support to sermon the argumentation papers successful the forthcoming legislative session. Then it would’ve been the State authoritative argumentation papers irrespective of governmental parties. We request a wide roadmap to instrumentality the argumentation successful toto.”
V. Rashmi Mahesh, Principal Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, said, “Many aspects of the SEP person already been adopted successful schoolhouse acquisition system. Regarding the implementation of the remaining recommendations, a determination volition beryllium taken soon aft discussing with the Minister of School Education.”
