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By Shilpa Nair: The member-cum-convenor of the Tamil Nadu State Education Policy (SEP) high-level committee L Jawahar Nesan has issued an official letter stating that he is relieving himself from the responsibility due to “bureaucratic disruptions, influence and unruly interference caused by some senior IAS officers in the government”.
In his letter, Nesan has claimed that as a result of the “bureaucratic interference”, the committee is spearheaded towards formulating the state education policy on the footsteps of the National Education Policy, 2020 and that the final policy will be nothing but a rechristened version of NEP.
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He has also accused a senior IAS officer Udhayachandran, who is the principal secretary to the CM MK Stalin, of “threatening him with abusive words”.
It may be noted that the Tamil Nadu’s ruling DMK government has been opposing the National Education Policy and had promised that it will come up with a State Education Policy instead. The committee involving proffesor Nesan was constituted by the state govt for this purpose.
Nesan was also a member of the government-constituted committee that studied the impact of NEET in medical courses admissions in the state. It was based on the committee’s report that the anti-NEET bill was passed by the Tamil Nadu Assembly.
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