00:00 The Government of Karnataka, today we had a series of meetings with all the vice-chancellors,
00:07 education experts and various organizations including our officials.
00:14 As we have decided in our manifesto, today we have gone very deep into it.
00:20 We heard them.
00:21 As you rightly know that the National Education Policy was brought from 2021, but still in
00:29 many states where BGP ruling states, none of the states have taken interest and they
00:34 are not adopted in the state.
00:36 But various states like the Tamil Nadu and Kerala, they have already rejected it.
00:41 It is a state subject.
00:42 We have looked deeply.
00:44 Karnataka has a very big strength on the education policies.
00:48 We have a big human resource for this is the knowledge capital.
00:54 We have the highest number of international schools, primary schools, engineering colleges,
01:00 medical colleges, nursing colleges.
01:02 We have our own system of quality education.
01:06 We have students in the entire country.
01:08 So today we have examined all those aspects.
01:11 We have decided we are going to scrap the National Education Policy which has been adopted
01:16 by the BGP government.
01:18 From next year we are coming up with a new Karnataka Education Policy.
01:22 This is what the government of Karnataka has decided.
01:25 We are going to form a committee within a week.
01:28 A new committee will look into those aspects.
01:30 We will look on the international agenda, the national agenda.
01:34 We want to look at the future of the...
