Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has constituted a 17-member State Steering Committee under the chairmanship of Prof Nityananda Pradhan, retired principal, RIE, Bhopal, with a view to develop the State Curriculum Frameworks (SCFs) under the ambit of National Education Policy, 2020 (NEP-2020), and in alignment with the National Curriculum Frameworks with local contextualization.
Other members of the State Steering Committee are Prof Hrushikesh Senapati, RIE and ex-Director, NCERT; Dr Gopal Prasad Mohapatra, retired associate professor; Prof Udaynath Dash, retired professor of Psychology, Utkal University; Dr Kishore Chandra Mohanty, retired educationist; Prof Sudarshan Mishra, Revenshaw University; Prof Ranjana Arora, NIE, NCERT; Prof Suniti Sanwal, NIE,NCERT; Dr Shruti Mohapatra, CEO, Swabhiman; Prof PC Agarwal, principal, RIE, Bhubaneswar; Dr Binay Pattnayak, Chief Consultant, NSTC Programme, NCERT; Dr Mahendra Kumar Mishra, Language and Learning Foundation; Prof Gayatri Mohanty, principal, NDW CTE, Bhubaneswar; Saroj Kumar Patnaik, New Life Education Trust; Monal Jayram, Senior Core Team Member, Piramal Foundation; and Gayatri Bahinipati, CDPO, Boriguma.
As per a notification issued on Thursday, the Additional Secretary to Government of Odisha, S&ME Department, has been named as a member convenor of the committee.
The state government will implement the National Education Policy 2020 at the school level from the next academic year. The government will also set up a Godavarish Adarsh Primary School in every panchayat to ensure a sound foundation for children’s education at the primary level.
