The NEP 2020 rightfully balances the rootedness and pride in India as well as acceptance of the best ideas and practices in the world of learning from across the globe, Vice President of India said.
The Vice President of India, M Venkaiah Naidu while praising the New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 said that it will reduce the load on students by reducing the syllabus. While delivering the first Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy Memorial Lecture through video conferencing, he further stressed that students must be encouraged to place equal emphasis on physical activity and sports. He also said that the Yoga should be made as an integral part of the school curriculum at a very early age and the students should be allowed to spend equal time in both classrooms and playgrounds. Calling Yoga an exercise of mind and body, the Vice President said Yoga has no religion. It is an art as well as science, he added.
Terming the recently launched new NEP 2020 as a visionary document, he said that it laid emphasis on holistic development of the students. He said that the NEP 2020 is focussed on transforming India into a knowledge society and for that the policy framework has been laid out fully learner-centric. “It rightfully balances the rootedness and pride of India as well as acceptance of the best ideas and practices in the world of learning from across the globe”, he added.
Expressing happiness over the importance given to mother tongue in NEP 2020, the Vice President stressed upon the importance of preserving and promoting our rich Indian languages. “I have time and again said that there should be no imposition of any language and no opposition to any language”, he said.
Opining that school education should focus on integral living where education is both theoretical and practical, the Vice President said that students must also be taught the spirit of national idealism, where the nation comes first and everything else is subordinate to national interests.
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