Expert committee on education in Kalyana Karnataka submits interim report
The committee will submit its final report tentatively in the first week of September 2025.
In its interim report, the committee has made major recommendations in three categories, including Immediate short-term recommendations to be implemented in the 2nd and 3rd examinations of this academic year and the next year; the short-term recommendations to be implemented by the 2025-26 academic year; and the medium-term recommendations to be executed in the next three-year period (2025-28).
In immediate short-term recommendations, the committee suggested
Additional classes in schools with less than 40% results
Marusinchana and Kalikasare-based teaching
Procuring the workbooks immediately
Focusing on low performing subjects
Continuous assignments to improve writing skills
Weekly reports on activities, assignments, valuation and performance on each student
End-to-end action to be taken by authorities (Deputy Director for Public Instructions)
Teaching and learning interventions should begin from class 8
Adopting innovative methods, teacher accountability and community participation
In short-term recommendations, the committee advised
Improve the monitoring and supervision mechanism by establishment additional block education offices (BEOs)
Establish 14 new BEOs in addition to 34 existing BEOs
Fill up teacher vacancies
Continuation of Akshara Avishkara scheme by establishing a project management unit for the programme
The medium-term recommendations include
Better positioning of existing government schools
Establishing new 200 Karnataka Public Schools in the next two years
Focus on increasing student enrolment, transition rate
Check drop-outs at secondary level
Improve learning outcomes
The interim report stressed on initial assessment at the beginning of the school in June to diagnose students' grade specific learning abilities. BEOs should fix school specific targets and entrust the accountability to achieve targets.
The report observed that capacity building of teachers should be a continuous process, reducing the non-academic workload on teachers, improving teaching-learning skills in English language, and improving learning and writing skills in Kannada language.
The committee is led by economist Chaya Degaonkar. The members are Abdul Qadeer, Mallikarjun M. S., Fr. Francis Bashyam , Rudresh S., N.B. Patil, Yeshwanth Harsur and Ngabai B. Bulla.
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