Mr. K Kasturirangan to head nine-member panel on National Education Policy
Former ISRO head, K Kasturirangan to head nine-member panel on National Education Policy The Union ministry of human resource development has appointed a new nine-member panel, headed by space scientist Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, to work on National Education Policy (NEP), sources said. The Prakash Javadekar-led HRD ministry has chosen experts and educationists from wide-ranging backgrounds to be part of the panel that is expected to recast India's education policy. Besides Kasturirangan, who headed Indian space agency ISRO, the panel includes former IAS officer, K J Alphonse Kanamthanam. He had played a key role in helping Keralas Kottayam and Ernakulam districts achieve 100 percent literacy, sources said. Ram Shanker Kureel, Vice chancellor of the Baba Saheb Ambedkar University of Social Sciences, Madhya Pradesh, who has wide experience in the field of agriculture sciences and management, has also been appointed. According to sources, Dr M K Shridhar, forme