3rd EdWG Meet In Bhubaneswar To Deliberate On Draft Of G20 Declaration

Bhubaneswar: The 3rd Education Working Group (EdWG) meeting to be hosted by the Ministry of Education in Bhubaneswar will provide a platform to the G20 members, guest countries and international organisations to deliberate on the zero draft of G20 Education Minister Declaration.

Briefing the media during the pre-event press conference in the city on Tuesday, Sanjay K Murthy, secretary, Higher Education said the recommendations that will come out of the meeting will go into drafting the declaration to be presented at the Education Ministers meeting in Pune on June 22.

The meeting to he held from April 26 to 28 will consist of a seminar/exhibition and working group meetings. The seminar on ‘Building Capacities for lifelong learning in context of future of work’ will be organised at CSIR- Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology in collaboration NSDC.

The day 1 of the working group meetings will be addressed by Dr Subhas Sarkar, Union Minister of State for Education. Besides G20 member countries and guest countries, the 3-day event will see participation of OECD, UNESCO, and UNICEF.

Atul Tiwary, secretary, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, spoke on the precursor events leading to the 3rd EdWG meeting and seminar. He informed that 1 lakh people have participated in Jan Bhagidari events in Odisha since Utkal Diwas, which began as a response to the Prime Minister’s call to make the G20 Presidency a People’s Presidency.

Sanjay Kumar, secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy spoke on skill integration in the school curriculum and arming children with a variety of future abilities to start them on a path of lifelong learning. He also shed light on the meeting with Singapore delegates during the India and Singapore workshop held at Taj Vivanta on April 25.

He said the 4th EdWG meeting at Pune post Bhubaneswar will focus on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy, which is a crucial component of NEP 2020.