Nandan Nilekani Committee is welcome, its mandate must be expansive

The outrage that spilled onto the country’s streets last week should be warning enough that the old ways will work no more. 3 min readJul 28, 2026 06:00 AM IST First published on: Jul 28, 2026 at 06:00 AM IST The more than a month-long protests by the country’s youth have brought long-overdue political attention to education reform. The Centre’s decision to constitute a high-level task force, barely a day after Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation, is a necessary acknowledgement of the crisis of confidence in a system that determines the fate of millions of young Indians. The committee’s composition — technology and education experts and former bureaucrats — suggests that the government is looking beyond immediate crisis management. Such an outlook is welcome. It is al