The committee, which has been set up by the Cabinet Secretariat that functions directly under the Prime Minister, will be headed by S. Radha Chauhan, Chairperson of the Capacity Building Commission. Chauhan is a heavyweight choice for the inquiry. She is a retired 1988-batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre and a former Secretary, DoPT, and assumed charge as Chairperson of the Capacity Building Commission in 2025. The move in itself signals that the matter has been pulled up to the highest level of the executive rather than left to the Education Ministry alone.
