Introduction
The Committee was constituted under the Ministry of Human Resource
Development (MHRD) in October, 2015.
Term of Reference
Committee was entrusted with the task of formulating a Draft National
Education Policy.
Recommendations
• An Indian Education Service (IES) should be established as an all India
service.
• The outlay on education should be raised to at least 6% of GDP without
further loss of time.
• There should be minimum eligibility condition with 50% marks at
graduate level for entry to existing B.Ed courses. Teacher Entrance
Tests (TET) should be made compulsory for recruitment of all teachers.
The Centre and states should jointly lay down norms and standards for
TET.
• Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) for children from four to
five years of age be declared as a right. This would facilitate pre-school
education by the government instead of the private sector until children
reach six years of age.
• The Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009 should be amended to provide
uniform norms ( infrastructure and quality) for recognition of both,
government and private schools.
• The Committee recommended the usage of scaled scores and percentiles
instead of the traditional marking scheme.
• To reduce the stress levels of students, the Committee proposed online
on-demand board exams as opposed to year end exams.
• Setting up of an Autonomous Teacher Recruitment Board. It also
recommended that teaching license should be subject to renewal every
10 years. For teacher training, a four year integrated B.Ed. course should
be implemented.
• The Committee recommended scaling up the existing National Skills
Qualification Framework to include more students.
• It recommends expanding and revising the choice of vocational courses
in accordance with local opportunities and resources.
• It also emphasised the need for formal certification by the various
Boards of Ed
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