Justice D. Murugesan, the retired judge heading the high-level committee tasked with the formulation of the Tamil Nadu State Education Policy (SEP), has denied certain serious allegations levelled by Prof. L. Jawahar Nesan, who quit as a member of the committee on Wednesday.
In a statement issued to the media on Thursday, Justice Murugesan said the SEP was not being formulated on the lines of the National Education Policy 2020. Such an allegation was “baseless, incorrect, and malicious”, he said, denying that the committee was functioning in an undemocratic manner.
Mr. Nesan had alleged interferences from a few bureaucrats in the functioning of the committee, which, according to him, was leading to the creation a policy similar to that of NEP 2020, “driven by the interests of the corporate and market forces, the interests of the sanatanic forces, and the privatisation and commercialisation of education”.
