Days after announcing that it plans to replace the National Education Policy (NEP) with its own state-level education policy, the Karnataka government has set up a committee of experts to formulate the policy. A 15-member committee and a separate group of eight subject experts/advisors have been constituted to work on creating the State Education Policy. The committee will function under the chairmanship of Prof Sukhdev Thorat, an eminent educationist, economist, professor, writer, and former chairman of UGC.

Prof S Japhet, founding director of the UGC-sponsored Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (CSSEEIP), Dr Sudhir Krishnaswamy, vice chancellor of National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Dr Sharat AnanthaMurthy, professor, School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, A Narayana, professor at Azim Premji University, and others are on the committee. Dr Bhagyavana S Mudigoudra, special officer, Department of Higher Education, will be the commission's Member Secretary, coordinating and maintaining the meeting's proceedings.

Prof Yogendra Yadav, Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi; Prof Rahamath Tarikere, Retd Professor in Kannada, Kannada University, Hampi; Prof Janaki Nair, Historian and Retd, Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Sonam Wangchuk, Engineer turned Education Reformer and Director of the Himalayan Institute of Alternatives,