Three months on, no action for implementation of SEP report

Even though 3 months person passed since the State Education Policy (SEP) Commission, headed by Sukhdeo Thorat, submitted the SEP report, the authorities has not taken immoderate enactment for its implementation. With lone 5 months near for the completion of the 2025-26 world year, it is doubtful that the SEP volition beryllium implemented adjacent from the 2026-27 world year.

The State authorities has not yet formed a committee for the implementation of the SEP, nor has it decided to sermon the study comprehensively successful the upcoming wintertime session. It has besides not enactment up the study successful nationalist domain to question suggestions from the nationalist and stakeholders.

As its canvass promise, the Congress authorities had appointed a 15-member committee headed by educationist Prof. Thorat connected October 12, 2023, for a abstracted SEP for the State alternatively of the National Education Policy (NEP-2020).

After a broad survey for astir 2 years, the committee submitted the last study consolidated successful 3 volumes On August 9, 2025, the authorities accepted it, but determination has been nary advancement thereafter.

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Meanwhile, successful the School Education Department, officials are moving to instrumentality different aspects of the NEP, including clump schools model, identifying magnet schools among Karnataka Public Schools (KPS), and merging neighbourhood schools .

However, determination are abstracted criteria successful the SEP for merging schools, which the School Education Department is not following.

“The SEP Commission was constituted by the State authorities connected its ain inaugural and it has besides accepted the SEP report. It is not close that the authorities has not taken immoderate enactment for its implementation adjacent aft receiving the SEP report,” said V.P. Niranjanaradhya, a subordinate of the SEP Commission.

“The SEP is simply a broad report, and the State authorities tin besides instrumentality it successful the aforesaid mode the Union authorities approved the NEP-2020 successful the Cabinet earlier. Or, it tin beryllium discussed successful the House and implemented. In the involvement of the State’s acquisition strategy and the aboriginal of students, the State authorities should instantly instrumentality the SEP report,” helium urged.

Speaking to The Hindu, Minister for Higher Education M.C. Sudhakar, said, “The Principal Secretaries of the Higher Education and School Education Departments person been instructed to instrumentality indispensable steps regarding the implementation of the SEP report.”