Three months on, no motion for implementation of SEP report

Even although three months have handed for the reason that State Education Policy (SEP) Commission, headed by Sukhdeo Thorat, submitted the SEP report, the federal government has not taken any motion for its implementation. With solely 5 months left for the completion of the 2025-26 educational yr, it’s uncertain that the SEP can be applied even from the 2026-27 educational yr.

The State authorities has not but shaped a committee for the implementation of the SEP, nor has it determined to debate the report comprehensively within the upcoming winter session. It has additionally not put up the report in public area to hunt solutions from the general public and stakeholders.

As its ballot promise, the Congress authorities had appointed a 15-member committee headed by educationist Prof. Thorat on October 12, 2023, for a separate SEP for the State as a substitute of the National Education Policy (NEP-2020).

After a complete examine for about two years, the fee submitted the ultimate report consolidated in three volumes On August 9, 2025, the federal government accepted it, however there was no progress thereafter.

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Meanwhile, within the School Education Department, officers are transferring to implement different elements of the NEP, together with cluster colleges mannequin, figuring out magnet colleges amongst Karnataka Public Schools (KPS), and merging neighbourhood colleges .

However, there are separate standards within the SEP for merging colleges, which the School Education Department will not be following.

“The SEP Commission was constituted by the State authorities by itself initiative and it has additionally accepted the SEP report. It will not be proper that the federal government has not taken any motion for its implementation even after receiving the SEP report,” mentioned V.P. Niranjanaradhya, a member of the SEP Commission.

“The SEP is a complete report, and the State authorities also can implement it in the identical means the Union authorities accredited the NEP-2020 within the Cabinet earlier. Or, it may be mentioned within the House and applied. In the curiosity of the State’s academic system and the way forward for college students, the State authorities ought to instantly implement the SEP report,” he urged.

Speaking to The Hindu, Minister for Higher Education M.C. Sudhakar, mentioned, “The Principal Secretaries of the Higher Education and School Education Departments have been instructed to take mandatory steps concerning the implementation of the SEP report.”