bengaluru after steering some of the successful educationrelated endeavours in karnataka three eminent individuals from the state have made it to the new national education policy panelthe panel set up by the union ministry of human resources will be headed by krishnaswamy kasturirangan chairman of the karnataka knowledge commission and chancellor of jawaharlal nehru university a former chairman of indian space research organization isro kasturirangan is also an honorary professor at jawarharlal nehru centre for advanced research bengaluru and is a professor emeritus at national institute of advanced studies bengaluruformer membersecretary of karnataka state innovation council m k sridhar who was associated with the karnataka knowledge commission earlier is also on the panel he was professor at canara bank school of management studies at bangalore universitythe third panel member from the state is t v kattimani language communication expert and vicechancellor of indira gandhi national tribal university amarkantak he hails from koppal district in north karnataka sridhar said that efforts would be made to roll out a strong educational policyhighlighting the need for changes in the system sridhar told toi i am happy that i have been tasked with such an important work the countrys education system needs a lot of changes and as panel members we will discuss these issues to come out with a strong policythe new panel will replace an earlier education policy committee formed by the hrd ministry under former cabinet secretary t s r subramanian a couple of years agosources said inputs from the subramanian panel report would also be utilised by the new committee