No sooner had the election pundits packed their bags and Television Channels
moved on to other methods of TRP generation, the draft of the National Education Policy appeared
and was put up on the MHRD website for public feedback. The latest draft was prepared under the
former ISRO director K Kasturirangan. Latest, because there have been multiple attempts to tinker
with education policies in the first term of the Modi government- most notably the Subramaniam
19The Draft Education Policy:
High on Rhetoric,
Dangerously Ambiguous
on Substance
Akshat Seth
Jawaharlal Nehru University, DelhiC O V E R S T O R Y
Student Struggle | June - July 2019