Kasturirangan Committee

Committee led by Dr K. Kasturirangan presented New Draft of National Education Policy. It included:

• Sanskrit at all levels of education: Sanskrit should be taught at all levels of school and higher education as one of the optional languages on par with all Schedule 8 languages.
• Extension of the Right To Education (RTE) Act: RTE, which currently applies to classes I to VIII, will now be applicable to the entire school system from pre-school to class XII Restructuring of the higher education institutions
• Establishment of a Rashtriya Shiksha Aayog (National Education Commission): as a constitutional body.
• Establishment of one higher education regulator—National Higher Education Regulatory Authority (NHERA)— that will subsume all other bodies like UGC, AICTE and others into it.  A national programme for the professional development of faculty members of the higher education institutions.