West Bengal government has constituted a 10-member high level committee for the examinees. New Education Policy (NEP), The committee, which will report in two months, includes members like Sugata Bose, Suranjan Das, Narsingh Prasad Bhaduri, Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak, Anupam Basu, Saikat Maitra, Abhi Mazumdar, Dhruvajyoti Chattopadhyay, Chiranjeev Bhattacharya and Kalyanmoy Ganguly.
A committee has been formed with experts to decide what steps will be taken with that national education policy. The work of this committee will be to review the entire education policy and see how it is being implemented.
Know who is on the committee
Sugata Bose is an Indian historian and politician who has taught and worked in the United States since the mid-1980s. His areas of study are South Asian and Indian Ocean history. From 2014 to 2019, Bose served as the Member of Parliament of India from the Jadavpur constituency of West Bengal with his party affiliation in the Mamata Banerjee-led All India Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Professor Suranjan Das is presently the Vice Chancellor of Jadavpur University. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter, UK. He was Professor of History at the University of Calcutta and served as Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic) at that institute and Vice Chancellor of the University of Kolkata and Honorary Director of the Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata.
Narsingh Prasad Bhaduri is an Indian historian, writer and Indologist. He is an expert in Indian epics and Puranas. In 2012, Bhaduri embarked on a large-scale project of creating an encyclopedia of the major Indian epics of Mahabharata and Ramayana.
Gayatri Chakravarti Spivak is an Indian scholar, literary theorist and feminist critic. She is a university professor at Columbia University and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
some NEP changes
Many new things have been introduced in the education system through NEP. The new policy lays special emphasis on vocational education in schools. The policy lays emphasis on vocational education to inculcate maths and science thinking among the students from school life. Under this, students will learn coding from class 6.
One of the changes in the new education policy is to give importance to the regional language and to keep the regional mother tongue at the forefront of the medium of instruction. The new education policy states that regional or local mother tongues should be the medium of instruction at least up to class V. It is better if it can be done in class VIII or above.
Students will now have the opportunity to study Sanskrit at all school levels and higher education. Here the principle of three languages will be followed. That is, now three languages will be taught in schools. Education experts believe that the Union Cabinet has taken this decision to give importance to the regional language and culture.
In the new system, students can choose from several subjects. This means that now if a student wants to study physics along with music, then he can. In the new education policy, along with school education, there is going to be a big change in higher education.
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