“The National Education Policy 2020 focuses on learning instead of studying and goes ahead of the curriculam to focus on critical thinking”, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi who took part in the inaugural session of the Governors’ Conference on National Education Policy on Monday, through video conference.
The Conference titled “Role of NEP-2020 in Transforming Higher Education” is organized by the Ministry of Education, Govt of India and attended by the President of India, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal and State Education Ministers of the country also.
NEP-2020 is the first education policy of the twenty-first century which was announced after 34 years of the previous National Policy on Education 1986. NEP-2020 is directed towards major reforms in both school and higher education level.
The Prime Minister said that the NEP is made in the way that it stresses on passion, practicality and performance. “Any system can be as effective and inclusive as its governance model is. The same thought is reflected in the governance related to education in this NEP. This is not the government’s education policy, it is the country’s education policy,” he said.
“We are working to make India a knowledge economy. To tackle brain drain, the NEP has paved the way for opening campuses of best international institutions in the country to bring them within reach of youth from simple families,” the Prime Minister said.
“Today the world is discussing the fast-changing nature of work, jobs in the future. This policy will prepare the country’s youth according to the needs of the future on both knowledge and skills front,” he said.