The K Kasturirangan Committee tasked with drafting a new education policy has got third extension from the HRD Ministry to give final shape to the draft.
The report which was supposed to be submitted by June 30, now has time till August 31.
The existing National Education Policy was framed in 1986 and revised in 1992.
Apart from Kasturirangan, the committee has eight members, including mathematician Manjul Bhargava.
The panel will also take into account the report of a panel headed by former cabinet secretary TSR Subramanian, formed by the HRD ministry during the tenure of Smriti Irani.