Madhya Pradesh launches National Education Policy 2020

Last Updated30/08/2021

Government of India introduced the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, with the goal to transform and provide world-class education facilities to students.
Aligning with the aim of the Central Government, Madhya Pradesh on August 26 officially launched NEP 2020 in the State, becoming the second state to do so.
Prior to it, Karnataka officially implemented the new National Education Policy 2020.

Chief minister of state emphasised upon the comprehensive nature of policy while launching it in state.
He also asked the Vice-Chancellors of the universities of the State to not only be confined to their universities, but also asked them to visit colleges, tour, and show a new direction to the education system.
MP Government is planning to implement NEP 2020 within four years in all the regions of the state, including 16 government universities and 40 private universities.

Karnataka on August 23, became the first state in the country to officially implement National Education Policy.
The State will also have a new research and development and digitization policy, focusing on the students will be in place.
In addition to this, the primary and secondary education council will be established with the objective to transform and empower the knowledge landscape of Karnataka.

Union Government launched the New Education Policy on July 29, 2020,, to prepare Indian students for the challenges of the 21st century.
It replaced the 34-year-old National Policy on Education framed in 1986.
The Policy, duly recognizes the diversity, complexity, and plurality of our society, its traditions, cultures, and languages.
An outlay of 50,000 crores over five years was announced in Union Budget 2021-22 for National Research Foundation (NRF).
NRF is a soon-to-be-set-up autonomous body envisaged under NEP which will look after funding, mentoring, and building ‘quality of research’ in India.

NRF will focus on funding research, primarily within the education system, with specific attention to colleges and universities.
It will encompass broad areas of sciences, technologies, social sciences, arts and humanities, and in the future, many other subject areas.
NEP imparts vocational education from class 6 onwards, progress card in place of the report card, 5+3+3+4 structure, multidisciplinary education with easy entry/exit options, and academic bank of credit.
It promotes imparting of education in the mother tongue of one’s region for building the foundational years of students.
Further, it also promotes student’s participation in sports and curricular activities, not limiting them to bookish knowledge.