Early Childhood Care Under New Education Policy
The Government has undertaken a collaborative, multi-stakeholder and multi-pronged consultation process for formulating the New Education Policy (NEP), which included online, grassroots and national level thematic deliberations with experts. The online consultation process was undertaken on www.MyGov.in portal from 26th January, 2015 to 31st October, 2015 and nearly 29,000 suggestions have been received on the 33 identified themes. The Government has also conducted thematic consultations through NCERT, CBSE, regulatory bodies and several centrally funded universities and institutions, autonomous bodies, attached offices having domain expertise.
The NEP consultation process was discussed in the 63rd Central Advisory Board on Education (CABE) Meeting held on 19th August 2015. Six Zonal Meetings were held by the Minister of Human Resource Development in Eastern, Central, North-Eastern, Western, Southern and Northern Zones covering all States and UTs in September-October 2015 which was attended by Education Ministers and officials of the respective States/UTs.
The Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) in its 58th Meeting held on 7th June, 2011 constituted a Sub-Committee on the Extension of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 to Pre-school education and secondary education". In the 63rd Meeting of CABE held on 19th August, 2015 it was informed that the Sub-Committee has not submitted its report and the status was discussed. It has been decided to reconstitute the Sub-Committee.
This information was given by the Union Human Resource Development Minister, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani today in a written reply to a Rajya Sabha question.
