Beyond Jantar Mantar: The Dharmendra Pradhan report card
This analysis reviews the five-year tenure of Dharmendra Pradhan as India's Education Minister, noting his focus on implementing the National Education Policy 2020. While he achieved significant administrative milestones, the report highlights persistent implementation gaps in foundational literacy and numeracy.
Why it matters
Evaluating the performance of key ministers provides insight into the long-term trajectory of national education reform and policy efficacy.
Dharmendra Pradhan’s exit as Education Minister has been under a cloud, but his five-year tenure was marked by a ramping up of efforts to implement the National Education Policy 2020, which the Union Cabinet had accepted a year before he took charge. Earlier, at the petroleum ministry, he had made his mark on programme implementation by delivering eight crore LPG connections to poor households in three years against a four-year target.
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