NEP 2020: New Education Policy doesn’t say how it will be achieved, says Manish Sisodia

Delhi education minister and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said the National Education Policy 2020 is "a forward-looking document which accepts flaws of today's education system."

New Education Policy 2020: Delhi education minister and deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said the National Education Policy 2020 is "a forward-looking document which accepts flaws of today's education system." He however said the new policy was unable to break free of pressures of the old traditions of education. While addressing the media, Mr Sisodia stated, "Nation was waiting for a new Education Policy for 34 years. It's nowhere. It's a forward-looking document which accepts flaws of today's education system but has two issues with it - Firstly, it was unable to break free of pressures of education's old traditions and secondly, the Policy doesn't say how the reforms, it speaks of, will be achieved. The Policy is either silent or confused on those issues."

According to the new National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 unveiled on July 29, include reforms such as the use of mother tongue or regional language while teaching up to class 5, a single regulator for higher education institutions except for law and medical colleges, common entrance tests for universities and more.

Discontinuing MPhil programmes, replacing the 10+2 structure of school curriculum with a 5+3+3+4 curricular structure corresponding to age groups 3-8, 8-11, 11-14 and 14-18 years respectively, implementing common norms for private and public higher education institutions are among other salient features of the new policy.

The NEP approved by the Union Cabinet at a meeting presided by Prime Minister Narendra Modi replaces the 34-year-old National Policy on Education framed in 1986. The New Education Policy aims at paving the way for transformational reforms in school and higher education systems to make India a global knowledge superpower. In the cabinet meeting, the renaming of the Human Resources Development (HRD) Ministry back as the Education Ministry was also approved.

The Ministry of Education was renamed as the HRD ministry in 1985 during the tenure of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The next year the National Education Policy (NEP) was introduced.

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