Beyond Jantar Mantar: The Dharmendra Pradhan report card
This article reviews the five-year tenure of former Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, highlighting his focus on the National Education Policy 2020. It notes both his achievements in implementation and the persistent challenges regarding educational outcomes and systemic reforms.
Why it matters
It provides a critical assessment of India's long-term educational strategy and the effectiveness of government-led curriculum reforms.
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 (NEP) 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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