Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' took charge of the HRD Ministry on Friday, 31 May, with the senior ministry officials handing him over the draft of the much awaited National Education Policy (NEP).
The policy, an ambitious project of the previous Modi government, is expected to be on the agenda of Pokhriyal, who started his career as a teacher in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-affiliated Saraswati Shishu Mandir.
But Pokhriyal’s comments in the past makes us hope that his understanding of science doesn’t make it to our textbooks: