Delhi govt initiates work to form own education board

NEW DELHI: The Government of Delhi initiated the process of formation of its own school education board. For this purpose, the state government has formed two committees – Delhi Education Board Committee and the Delhi Curriculum Reform Committee. This comes after the Delhi government announced plans for curriculum reforms and creating a new board for the national capital during the deliberation of the Budget 2020-21. During a joint meeting of the two committees, Manish Sisodia, Education Minister, Government of Delhi said that Delhi government schools have shown remarkable performance in the Class 12 board exam results. Citing this to be an example of how far the quality of education has come from when the Delhi government assumed office in 2014, he said that this is still not enough and that the government must strive to take education levels further and improve quality of education.

The committee for creation of the framework for Delhi State Education Board will study global best practices in learning assessment, re-imagine current assessment practices and provide a roadmap for an innovative, student-friendly scheme of assessment to be followed by the new board. “The committee for the creation of a new curriculum for children up to the age of 14 years will study globally renowned best practices in curriculum and reforms and recommend what is best suited for Delhi,” the government said in a statement.

“Our past results have been reflective of what can be done within the existing education system in the past five years, by bringing about massive transformation in the quality of education. But now, the team should think about redesigning the education system in a way that will suit the demand and challenges of the 21st century world,” Sisodia said.