 "K Kasturirangan, Isro, former chief")
The Union human resource development (HRD) ministry on Monday appointed an eight-member committee headed by K Kasturirangan to draft the new national education policy. The last national education policy was made in 1989.
The government said the committee, led by Kasturirangan, a former chief of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), would consider inputs provided by the TSR Subramanian Committee, which was earlier supposed to draft the policy.
The five-member Subramanian panel had submitted its report to the government in May 2016, but it was kept in abeyance. The government felt the Subramanian committee report was a “mere compilation” of various reports
