President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the inaugural session of the Governors’ Conference on National Education Policy on Monday through video conference.

The address will begin at 10:30 am and will be live telecast on DD News.

Titled "Role of NEP-2020 in Transforming Higher Education", the conference is being organized by the Ministry of Education.

The conference will be attended by Education Ministers of all states, vice-chancellors of state universities and other senior officials.

NEP 2020 is the first education policy of the 21st century and replaces the 34-year-old National Policy on Education (NPE), 1986. It is directed towards major reforms in both school and higher education level.

Built on the foundational pillars of access, equity, quality, affordability, and accountability, NEP is aligned to the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and aims to transform India into a vibrant knowledge society and global knowledge superpower by making both school and college education more holistic, flexible, multidisciplinary.

The new National Education Policy strives for making India into an equitable and vibrant knowledge society. It envisions an India-centred education system that contributes directly to transforming India into a Global Superpower.

The comprehensive transformation aimed 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 PM Modi.

Various Webinars, Virtual Conferences, and Conclaves on various aspects of National Education Policy 2020 are being organised across the country.