Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan to head National Education Policy

A nine member panel has been constituted for National Education Policy by the Government of India with Space Scientist Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan being the head of panel in order to work on a new policy. The panel consists of former IAS officer K J Alphonse Kanamthanam, Ram Shanker Kureel, vice chancellor of the Baba Saheb Ambedkar University of Social Sciences, Mhow, Madhya Pradesh; Dr M K Shridhar, former member secretary of the Karnataka State Innovation Council, Dr T V Kattimani; Dr Mazhar Asif, professor of Persian at Guwahati University, and former director of education Uttar Pradesh; Krishan Mohan Tripathi and Manjul Bhargava from Princeton University and Vasudha Kamat, former vice chancellor of Mumbai's SNDT University.