Restructuring Indian Education: NEP 2020 “A Dawn towards New India”
Keywords:
Education system, National Education Policy 2020, Digital initiativesAbstract
India, one the oldest civilizations of the world a multi-diverse country in terms of geography, caste, language, cultures, festivals and the ethnicity as well as the rich education system of India such as Vedic and Guru-Kula system and transferred through many phases. After independence, India redesigned the entire education system as per its own style taste as well as the requirement and aspirations of the country. The 10+2+3 pattern was recently replaced by the National Educational policy of 2020 with 5+3+3+4 yet to be implemented and bringing new shapes in education with the focus on multidisciplinary approach, flexibility, credit system digital progress etc.
Being the first major education policy of the 21st century, it has come up with the expectations to redeem past glorify of Indian education system and hence proposed to devise the entire education system and frame the policy for new India along with its own spirit and ethos. As a major capsule to achieve India’s target partnership with the completion of SDG-4 by 2030 and India’s journey of Digital excellence has been in line which has got its importance during this Pandemic where numerous online plat forms were restarted or boosted to excel in academics.
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