Panaji: The State government has formed a 35-member Expert committee under chairmanship of Laxmikant Parsekar, the former chief minister of Goa, which will submit its report in next three to four months, to finalise the new State Education Policy.
The first meeting of the 35 member committee was held at the Chief Minister’s residence.
Shiroda MLA Subash Shiroda said that the committee will submit suggestion to new education policy. In next few months
“All members are vocal and well educated people and there was good deliberation with the CM,” Shirodkar said.
He said that the Expert committee will form several sub-committees from this committees by next Tuesday.
The sub-committees would be on – pre primary, secondary and higher secondary, he said.
“These committees will submit their report to the expert committee, which will be then handed over to chief minister,” he said.
He said that in next three four months we will submit the reports.
“The new Education policy is the vision of the PM. It intends to create India as a knowledge hub country,” he said.
Shirodkar said that the will decide on vocational studies and rest syllabus will come from NCERT.
He said that upto 12th standard will be semester exams and no more board exams.