The Union Ministry of Education on Tuesday told Madras High Court it has been regularly following up with Tamil Nadu the issue of implementation of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and it had written a letter last on September 7, 2021 requesting the State government to share the initiatives taken and the achievements made so far in implementing the policy.
In a counter affidavit filed before Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and D. Bharatha Chakravarthy who were seized of a public interest litigation petition seeking a direction to the Centre and the State government to implement the policy in Tamil Nadu, the Ministry said, the issue would be discussed in the proposed conference of Chief Secretaries of all States and Union Territories.
The counter affidavit, filed through the Central government senior panel counsel K. Srinivasamurthy, stated that the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development itself got re-designated as Ministry of Education only as per the NEP 2020. Recalling the history, the Ministry said, it had initiated the process of formulating a NEP in January 2015 by kickstarting a three pronged consultation process.
