India’s Education Policy Landscape

By Abhishek Jain, Head, Public Policy at Mantra4Change. Evolution of ‘education policy’ in India Post India’s independence in 1947, multiple commissions were set up over 2 decades to ideate and design independent and modern India’s educational system. Gradually the central government realised that there was a need to formulate a national level policy to promote…

Education Policy 101

By Abhishek Jain, Head, Public Policy at Mantra4Change. Finding ‘education policy’ in the larger umbrella of ‘policy’ In policy discourse, the most common discourse usually surrounds ‘public policy’ where the classification of policy has been on the basis of ownership i.e., whether it is owned and/or created by a public institution/ actor. In cases where…