Naukri.com founder to be inducted in CABE

CABE is the highest advisory body on education in the country.

In an indication of its focus on combining employability with education and of including it in larger policy formulation, the Human Resource Development Ministry will induct founder of job portal Naukri.com Sanjeev Bikhchandani in the reconstituted Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE).

CABE is the highest advisory body on education in the country. The three-year term of its members is due to expire in May this year and the ministry has so far picked around 20 of the nominated members of the body.

According to sources in the ministry, Bhikchandani, founder and executive vice-chairman of Info Edge (India) which owns Naukri.com, is set to be in the newly-reconstituted body.
Bikhchandani, who set up Naukri.com in 1997, is also one of the founders and trustees of Ashoka University.

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Ministry officials say Bhikchandani’s inclusion is an attempt to lay emphasis on the importance of tying employability with education, instead of focusing on mere academics. In tune with this, the ministry will also focus on skill development in education by including experts in the area as CABE members.

Apart from some Union ministers, state education ministers, four Lok Sabha and two Rajya Sabha MPs, ex-officio members, vice-chancellors of universities and other heads of key educational institutions, the CABE constituted by the UPA government in 2012 comprised four people from the industry “representing interest in education”, six academicians/scientists, seven people with “special interests” including activist Teesta Setalvad and other activists/educationists, five nominees representing school education, two representing creative arts, one representing minority educational institutions, four representing different languages and two representatives from the media.

As reported earlier, other members of the reconstituted CABE include Rohan Narayan Murty, the man behind the Murty Classics of India, Vijay Bhatkar, chairman of IIT-Delhi, S A Bari and former chairman of Editors’ Guild of India D N Bezboruah among others.

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