'Tamil Nadu educational policy to be submitted to CM MK Stalin in January'

ERODE: State school education minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi said the panel constituted by the Tamil Nadu government to draw up the State Education Policy would submit its comprehensive draft policy document to the chief minister in January 2023.
The chief minister would review the draft and issue appropriate announcements regarding the State Education Policy, Mahesh Poyyamozhi told reporters in Erode on Friday in the presence of state housing minister S Muthusamy.
Poyyamozhi, who was in Erode to inaugurate a training session for volunteer teachers of the non-formal adult education programme, said preliminary work for drafting the exclusive state education policy was over and the panel constituted by the government for the purpose was hearing views of private school associations and other stakeholders. This process would be completed by December and a report would be submitted to the chief minister next month, he said.
The DMK has been stridently opposing the National Education Policy, even before it came to power, on the grounds that NEP would impose Hindi and was against TN's two language policy. The state also objected to public exams for junior classes. Soon after DMK came to power, Stalin announced that TN would formulate its own state education policy instead of implementing the NEP.
The state government constituted a 13-member panel, headed by retired chief justice of Delhi High Court D Murugesan. The panel too had members from diverse fields like chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand and Carnatic exponent T M Krishna. The panel was mandated to come up with reforms in conducting examinations, faculty recruitment and training as well as teaching methods by incorporating soft skills.
Mahesh Poyyamozhi earlier said that under the non-formal adult education programme, the state would exceed the target of educating 4.8 lakh people in the current academic year.
He said TN had set a target of educating 3.10 lakh people last year. But the state exceeded the target and educated 3.15 lakh people, he said. "This year too we are confident of exceeding the target of 4.8 lakh people and educating 5 lakh people under the programme," he said.
He said chief minister M K Stalin has allocated 9.83 crore under New India Literacy Programme through which the non-formal adult education goal is being achieved. The state will soon achieve a 100 % literacy rate through such initiatives, he said.