New panel on education policy this week

Degrees to have photos and Aadhaar to prevent fraud

The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) is about to announce a committee to draft a national education policy, after it decided to junk a similar report from the T S R Subramanian committee.

“We will announce the committee by the end of this week. The name of the chairperson is being deliberated,” HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar told Business Standard. Officials in the ministry said the Subramanian committee report was a “mere compilation” of various reports and they wanted “a fresh and comprehensive report”.

A MHRD official said the government was also planning degrees with photographs and the Aadhaar