The Union Cabinet led by our Prime Minister Narendra Modi sanctioned a reformed National Education Policy 2020 on 29 July 2020. Is that a fact, this first NEP of the 21st century will replace the 34-year-old National Education Policy, 1986? Shall we take a look and consider at major key points of the New National Education Policy.
With the transformation of this policy, a new name is also declared by the department as ‘Ministry of Human Resource and Development’ to the ministry of Education’. It will bring a great revolution and framework in the vision of schools and higher education systems in the nation.
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The main objective of the policy is to modify India’s Education Structure by 2021.
The policy is a complete framework for primary education to higher education in addition to professional training in both rural and urban India.
Soon after the announcement of the policy, the government declared that any specific language will not be compulsory to anyone for studying and the medium of instruction will not be relocated from English to any regional language. It is a broad recommendation and guidelines for the language policy in NEP and the implementation of this advisory’s decision is up to the states, institutions, and schools.
The New National Education Policy should be executed in all schools of India at the end of 2022.
Yet, Himachal Pradesh has become the first state to implement New Education Policy 2020.
Note – Read in Hindi visit link here भारत की नई शिक्षा नीति 2020
Perception
The perception of the New Education Policy is:
The NEP 2020 examines India’s basic education system that contributes directly to transforming our nation’s biodiversity into an unbiased and dynamic skill society by providing high-quality education to all.
Benefits
The NEP 2020 approves several changes in India’s education policy. It objects to improve state expenditure on education from about 4% to 6% of the GDP at the earliest.
The modification and purposes are:
Languages
The guidelines of the policy state that the significance of mother tongue and regional languages should be increased and the medium of instruction should be in these languages up to class 5. The importance of Sanskrit and Foreign languages will also be in priority. There will be no provision for the compulsion of any language on the students.
In the National Curriculum Framework in 2021, a further comprehensive language policy would be declared. This language policy had already implemented in Sardar Patel Vidyalaya and some more institutions 60 years ago. As, it was an advisory guideline to encourage the habit of mother tongue in both the Education Policy of 1986 and the Right to Education Act, 2009.
Discussions on New Education Policy (NEP), 2020
The running pattern of the National Education Policy was framed and amended in 1992 after the education system of 1986. The 1986 policy was formulated by the Government of India for elementary education to higher education in both rural and urban India.
Throughout this season, numerous changes have taken place in our country including society’s economy and the entire world. Hence, it is mandatory to modify or organize the education systems of India according to the need of the new era, people, technology, framework, and the standard of the nation. India will become a superpower in knowledge, innovation, and research.
The processed formulation of the New Policy on Education by the Indian Government had started through discussion sessions for a cooperative, comprehensive, and considerable outlook.
The New National Education Policy 2020 has been formulated after an exceptional formulation of discussion which involved millions of proposals from different districts, panchayats, and blocks. A committee under Late Cabinet Secretary T. S. R. Subramanian started the discussion process for the New Education Policy in January 2015. The MHRD inaugurated an exceptional collaborative board and highly democratic discussion process.
In June 2017, based on the committee report, the draft NEP was submitted in May 2019 by a panel led by earlier Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) scientist Dr. Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan. The T74 Draft of 484 pages of New Education Policy (DNEP) 2019 was later announced by the Hon’ble Minister of Human Resource Development, It was reformated on MHRD’s website and ‘MyGov Innovate’ portal for further suggestions, comments, and public consultations.
