No delay in rolling out NEP due to COVID-19: Ramesh Pokhriyal
Union education minister Ramesh PokhriyalNEW DELHI: COVID-19 won’t delay implementation of the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020), said Union education minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal, in a reply to a written question in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, 18 March 2021
“No sir,” said the minister when asked if there would be a delay in rolling out the education policy due to the pandemic.
Pokhriyal added, “As per NEP 2020, implementation of the policy requires multiple initiatives and actions, which will have to be taken by multiple bodies in a synchronized and systematic manner. Therefore, the implementation of this Policy will be led by various bodies including the ministry of education, CABE, Union and State Governments, education-related ministries, state departments of education, Boards, NTA, the regulatory bodies of school and higher education, NCERT, SCERTs, schools, and HEIs. NEP mentions various timelines for important themes/subsets. The policy provides different timelines as well as principles and methodology for its implementation.”
The NEP was approved by the Union Cabinet in 2020 and it replaces the 34-year-old National Policy on Education framed in 1986. It is aimed at paving the way for transformational reforms in school and higher education systems to make India a global knowledge superpower.
Teaching at least up to class V in mother tongue or regional language, lowering the stakes of board exams, a single regulator for higher education institutions except for law and medical colleges, and common entrance tests for universities are part of the sweeping reforms in the NEP.
Replacing the 10+2 structure of school curricula with a 5+3+3+4 curricular structure corresponding to age groups 3-8, 8-11, 11-14, and 14-18 years respectively, scrapping MPhil programmes and implementing common norms for private and public higher education institutions are among other salient features of the new policy.
“No sir,” said the minister when asked if there would be a delay in rolling out the education policy due to the pandemic.
Pokhriyal added, “As per NEP 2020, implementation of the policy requires multiple initiatives and actions, which will have to be taken by multiple bodies in a synchronized and systematic manner. Therefore, the implementation of this Policy will be led by various bodies including the ministry of education, CABE, Union and State Governments, education-related ministries, state departments of education, Boards, NTA, the regulatory bodies of school and higher education, NCERT, SCERTs, schools, and HEIs. NEP mentions various timelines for important themes/subsets. The policy provides different timelines as well as principles and methodology for its implementation.”
The NEP was approved by the Union Cabinet in 2020 and it replaces the 34-year-old National Policy on Education framed in 1986. It is aimed at paving the way for transformational reforms in school and higher education systems to make India a global knowledge superpower.
Teaching at least up to class V in mother tongue or regional language, lowering the stakes of board exams, a single regulator for higher education institutions except for law and medical colleges, and common entrance tests for universities are part of the sweeping reforms in the NEP.
Replacing the 10+2 structure of school curricula with a 5+3+3+4 curricular structure corresponding to age groups 3-8, 8-11, 11-14, and 14-18 years respectively, scrapping MPhil programmes and implementing common norms for private and public higher education institutions are among other salient features of the new policy.
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