Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday announced that the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has been granted the status of deemed university. The Minister made this announcement during his address on the 63rd Foundation Day of NCERT.
As the apex organization for school education, NCERT conducts various activities and programmes, including educational research and innovation, curriculum development and development of textual and teaching-learning materials.
The NCERT was established in 1961 under the Societies Act to provide assistance and advice to the government in matters of school education. According to the Act, any Higher Educational Institution, other than universities, working to a very high standard in a specified field of study can be declared as 'Deemed-to-be-University' by the Central Government on the advice of the UGC. Institutions which are 'Deemed Universities' enjoy the same academic status and privileges as universities. With the status of deemed university, NCERT will offer its own graduate, postgraduate and doctoral degrees.
Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated 3 labs, one for Virtual Reality Education and the other for Teacher Training Centre. During his address, the Education Minister drew parallels between Chandrayaan-3 and the National Education Policy and said that the new education policy will be as successful as the recent ISRO project.
"The credit for the successful operation of Chandrayaan-3 should also go to NCERT as the idea of such a project originated from here," Pradhan said. “NEP is like Chandrayaan-3. It will be successful. No one can stop it''
(With PTI Inputs)
