Overview
- A high-powered committee is drafting a state education policy aligned with the National Education Policy, with an announcement expected soon.
- The state is building Young India Integrated Residential Schools on 25-acre campuses costing about ₹200 crore each to serve SC, ST, BC and minority students as mini-university hubs.
- Government schools will add pre-primary classes, and transport for young children in rural areas is under consideration to raise enrollment.
- Industrial Training Institutes are being upgraded into Advanced Technology Centres, with one planned in each Assembly constituency.
- Following a briefing in Hyderabad, Himachal Pradesh’s education minister requested a report on the model, as the chief minister set a three-year deadline to complete one boys’ and one girls’ campus per constituency in the first phase.