The NEP has triggered a lot of controversy in Southern India. Tamil Nadu would achieve the target of 50 percent Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER), fixed in the National Education Police (NEP) 2020 for 2035, in the present academic year itself as the State’s present GER was 49 percent, Minister for Higher Education K P Anbalagan said on Monday.

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In a letter to Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on the NEP, Anbalagan said: ‘We have taken various measures by opening new colleges, the introduction of new courses, increasing the capacity of colleges by recruiting teachers, creating labs and other facilities and would continue to do the same and by 2035, Tamil Nadu can achieve an ambitious target of 65% GER.’ Pointing out that Tamil Nadu already has a teacher-student ratio of 1:17 as against the national all India ratio of 1:26, he made it clear that the State, which has always followed the "2 language policy" successfully, has already taken a decision to continue with it in future also.

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Anbalagan said the NEP was discussed with the Chief Minister and all senior Ministers and the government had now appointed a seven-member committee, headed by the principal secretary of education, to go through the policy and offer comments and recommendations that could be adopted by the State. Though the government would be in a position to submit its detailed remarks in due course of time, he wanted to put forth his initial remarks on the NEP, the Minister said, welcoming the proposed conversion of the B.Ed program into a 4-year Integrated Degree Course, including two major subjects.

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