Govt considers Indian Education Service

Updated on: Tuesday, December 22, 2009

New Delhi: Former HRD secretary Anil Bordia's pet project of starting an Indian Education Service (IES) got an encouraging signal with HRD minister Kapil Sibal promising to look into it.

During the round table on school education on Monday, Sibal asked a group of experts led by Bordia to look into the feasibility of such an exclusive service on the lines of IAS, Indian Forest Service or Indian Revenue Service.

As HRD secretary, Bordia had pushed for IES and even had a study conducted on it. The idea fizzled out due to lack of takers then. Also, a similar attempt by former culture minister Jagmohan to start an Indian Archaeological Service remained unsuccessful.

The round table took up other pressing educational issues. With public-private partnership mode for 2,500 schools yet to be sorted out, the round table decided to set up a committee to study PPP for school education.

The round table felt that in the absence of any indicator of the number of special children going to schools a mapping is necessary. Therefore, a committee under renowned expert Mithu Alur will be set up. The committee will be asked to report in three months.

Taking the absence of trained teachers seriously, the meeting felt that teacher education should be under the university system. A committee was setup for this purpose. A separate committee was constituted to look into in-service training of teachers.

It was also decided that once the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan-Right to Education harmonisation committee gives its report many of the new proposals will be implemented in lagging states.

Govt considers Indian Education Service

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