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Welcome to the New Education Policy. Now I know I just took it apart like the pessimist I am, but I could not just overlook the applicability of the policy for the majority of this country. Undoubtedly, there are many positives as well, and I shall mention some of the salient ones. The change of the policy was long overdue and there could not have been a better timing to announce these changes, when the entire education system seems to be in shackles.
What Will Change Under NEP 2020?
The NEP talks about aiming for universal education till the age of 18, but nowhere mentions if it will be free. The Right to Education Act, a milestone in the Indian Education system, hasn’t been referred to in the document. What happens to that Act? What happens to RTE Section 12 (1) (c) that reserves 25% seats for people from SC/ST/OBC in private schools? Will the government make changes to the Act, considering it mentions ease of norms to open up a school? Well, the questions remain to be answered.
The policy will bring two crore children into the mainstream. Three years ago, there was a dearth of one million teachers in India. Who will teach these kids who come to the mainstream? The question is not on the ability to produce more teachers, but rather, on addressing what the current issues are in the first place — in any case, a welcome objective to have.
As more and more children enter the mainstream, another issue that would need to be addressed is the Pupil Teacher Ratio, especially in states such as Uttarakhand, where thousands of schools depend on a single teacher for their survival.
One major change in the NEP is in the bucket of division, as we shall move from 10 + 2 to 5 + 3 + 3 + 4, which shall include Early Childhood Education (ECE) or Aanganwadi system in it. This, in my humble opinion, is a positive global move. One of the main issues with RTE, I feel, was a lack of focus on ECE. This will finally be taken more seriously and scientifically (Please do not think of the word ‘implementation’ yet).
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