HRD Minister Nishank Chairs the Special Meeting of Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE)

HRD Minister Nishank Chairs the Special Meeting of Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE)

HRD Minister Nishank Chairs the Special Meeting of Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE)

Union Human Resource Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal ’Nishank’ chaired the Special Meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) held in New Delhi.

The meeting was attended by Prahlad Singh Patel, MoS(Independent Charge) for Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Tourism, Kiren Rijiju, MoS (Independent Charge) for Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and MoS, Ministry of Minority Affairs, and Sanjay Dhotre, Minister of State for Human Resource Development.

The Minister also launched the Plagiarism Detection Software (PDS) "ShodhShuddhi”. This service is being implemented by INFLIBNET, an Inter University Centre (IUC) of UGC. PDS will significantly help to improve the quality of research outcomes by ensuring the originality of ideas and publication of the research scholars. Initially, about 1000 Universities/ Institutions (Central Universities; Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs); State Public Universities; Deemed Universities; Private Universities; Inter University Centre (IUCs) & Institutes of National Importance are being provided with this service.

The main agenda of the Special meeting of CABE was to discuss the Draft National Education Policy 2019 (DNEP 2019). There were two separate presentations on the main highlights of the DNEP 2019 covering the School and Higher Education.