Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the Conclave on “School Education in 21st Century” under the National Education Policy- 2020 through video conferencing today.
The Ministry of Education is organising this two day conclave which began yesterday as part of the Shiksha Parv. NEP-2020 is the first education policy of the twenty-first century. It was announced 34 years after the previous National Policy on Education 1986. NEP-2020 is directed towards major reforms in both school and higher education levels.
The new National Education Policy aims at making India an equitable and vibrant knowledge society. It envisions an India-centred education system that contributes directly to transforming India into a Global Superpower. NEP-2020 brought in sweeping reforms in School Education in the country. At the school level emphasis is being given to Universalisation of Early Childhood Care and Education for children up to the age 8. 102 structure of school curricula is to be replaced by a 5334 curricular structure. The comprehensive transformation aimed in the NEP will bring about a paradigm shift in the country’s education system and create an enabling and reinvigorated educational ecosystem for a new Atmanirbhar Bharat envisaged by the Prime Minister.
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