NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY AWAITS IMPLEMENTATION BY THE HRD MINISTRY
The Committee for the evolution of a National Education Policy
has submitted the report containing its recommendations to the
Ministry of HRD. The policy draft has already been through
intense deliberations and public consultations over the period of
9 months in 2015.
Committee constituted by the government of India comprised
of Mr T S R Subramanian, former Cabinet Secretary as the
Chairman and Mrs Shailaja Chandra, former Chief Secretary,
NCT of Delhi, Mr Sevaram Sharma, former Home Secretary,
NCT of Delhi, Mr Sudhir Mankad, former Chief Secretary,
Gujarat & Prof J S Rajput, former Director, NCERT as
its members.
BCIL CONDUCTS FEEDBACK CONSULTATIONS ON REVISED MSC BIOTECH SYLLABUS
education
The Committee during its tenure examined the large body of
outcome documents, recommendations and suggestions
received from the various consultations. The Committee also had several meetings with various stakeholders and held
regional consultations as well as undertaken field visits to educational institutions. The Ministry of Human Resource
Development (MHRD), Government of India had undertaken a consultation process for framing a New Education Policy
(NEP). The process included online, grassroots and national level thematic deliberations on 33 themes. The online
consultations on www.MyGov.in portal were held from January 26, 2015 to October 31, 2015 and over 29,000 suggestions
were received.
Taking into cognizance the changing needs of the
economy and to keep abreast with the latest
developments and also to meet the needs of
skilled manpower in rapidly advancing field of
biotechnology, it has been felt that there is a need
to revise and update the curricular guidelines for
the various MSc, MTech, MSc(Agri), MVSc
courses of biotechnology.
Therefore, in a giant step in that direction, the Biotech
Consortium India Limited (BCIL), New Delhi has been
undertaking a project ‘Course Curriculum Revision of
Post graduate Programmes in Biotechnology’ for the
Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science
and Technology, Government of India. The exercise aims
at reframing the curricular guidelines for the 12 Post
Graduate courses in biotechnology supported by DBT
across the country.
The objective of this holistic exercise was the identification of the areas in which the courses need updation through seeking views
from various concerned stakeholders and developing need-based curricula in consultation with expert groups.
There were two separate feedback forms one each for academia and research institution or company. Employers (research
institutions as well as industry) today, operate in an environment that demands contemporary, multidisciplinary and constantly
evolving skills to retain global competitiveness. The DBT National Biotechnology Development Strategy 2015 – 2020 too
highlights the importance of human resource development and need for nurturing tailor-made human capital for scientific research
and entrepreneurship.
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