Education Minister to meet directors of IIITs, NITs, IITs and other institutes today

The agenda of the meeting is to discuss COVID-19 management, online learning, and the status of implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP), Mr. Pokhriyal said.

Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank will be meeting the director of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) today, i.e May 20.
The agenda of the meeting is to discuss COVID-19 management, online learning, and the status of implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP), Mr. Pokhriyal said. The meeting is scheduled to take place at 11:30 am.

“I will be meeting Directors of IITs, IIITs, NITs, IISER & IISCs with an agenda of discussing COVID-19 Management, Online Learning and the latest status of Implementation of NEP2020 at 11:30 AM tomorrow,” Mr Pokhriyal tweeted.

Earlier this week, the Education Minister chaired a review meeting with the education secretaries of states and UTs to discuss various measures adopted by them for the management of the education system during COVID, strategies adopted for online and offline learning in schools so far and the way forward. As per the officials, the issue of pending Class 12 Board exams also came up, to which the Education Minister has sought suggestions. 

The CBSE has already announced that a review will be done on or after June 1 and a decision will be taken on the pending CBSE 12th exams 2021.

Earlier, CBSE Class 10 exams were cancelled and a marking policy was also announced. A group of parents and students has demanded CBSE 12th exams 2021 be cancelled owing to the current COVID-19 situation.

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