NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY

 The education policy was unveiled in the year 1968,followed by education policy of 1986,followed by 1992 and the new education policy of 2020.It aims at improving the lower level as well as higher level of education. It emphasis on giving primary education in regional language upto grade 5.Moreover,it talks about increasing the public investment from earlier 4.6% to 6%.The forty second amendment act in the year 1976 brought the education from state list to concurrent list, allowing center and state to come to consensus on issue of education. The Right to Education act of 2009 made primary education for children aged 6-14 years compulsory and also deemed it as fundamental right. The new National education policy not only ensure investment but also talks about increasing the gross enrollment ratio as well as infrastructure and skills in new India.

It talks about educating the students in their regional language upto grade five which is a significant way as it facilitates quick learning and expands the brain. Moreover, it also removes the bone of contention  debate between English and Hindi as local language is the best source of imbibing knowledge. It breaks the protocols of k-12 education making it 5+3+3+4 pattern education with low weightage to rote based learning. It talks about introducing vocational training for 11 to 14 age group and also compulsory 10 days internship from local experts, opening opportunities for them to be skilled from very early age. The weightage of board exam is also devalued however, these exams will be conducted with no change. Moreover it also opens opportunities for students to re appear for board papers, if they believe there's scope for improvement.

The National Testing Agency will be responsible for conducting all exams to get admission into higher education. It talks about increasing the gross enrollment ratio from earlier 26% to 50%.GEP is the average number of student in age group of 18-26 pursuing higher education. Drop outs from first year will also be entitled for degree. PHD degree will be easily facilitated with research after graduation.

However people have raised their eyebrows and a contention has evolved between center and intellectuals on certain points.

1)The aggravation of public investment from 4.6% to 6% is not time framed.

2)Amplifying GEP upto 50% by 2035 will be a challenging task as it talks about cascading twice the number of seats of 70 years of independence in just 15 years.

3)It talks about introducing vocational training which requires a proper coordination between education and skills ministry.

  

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