National education policy by Nov: Smriti

Jalandhar, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani today said that the Centre was in the process of amending the National Education Policy that was framed about 30 years ago.
Irani, who was here for a convocation ceremony at KMV College, said the process of gathering online feedback from the public had already begun.
The minister said the policy, which would be amended to promote holistic education in the changing scenario, would be finalised by November so that it could come into effect from December onwards.
At the function, she interacted with the gold medallist students asking them about their aims and ambitions.
The actor-turned-politician even interacted with the girls outside the vocational centre opened at the campus. The girls said they wanted to pursue these courses but were bound by limited resources. The minister informed them about the Centre’s Swayam project in which they had a chance to do 80 online diploma and certificate courses free of cost. She listed a few of them, including farm technology, sericulture, mushroom cultivation and garage mechanics.
Irani denied reports about her “bad equation” with party chief Amit Shah, which had surfaced recently after she was dropped from the national executive.
On her political rival and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s sabbatical, she said he would have to respond to the people of his constituency Amethi. She feigned ignorance when asked for comments on the displeasure expressed by the authorities of the National University of Education, Planning and Administration over not involving them in the framing of new education policy.
Irani did not respond to the media on certain uncomfortable questions pertaining to her tiff with IIT board members over directors’ selections and her plans to introduce mother tongue as the medium of education.