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Centre holds review of NEP with States, to chart five-year action plan

Centre holds review of NEP with States, to chart five-year action plan
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Centre holds review of NEP with States, to chart five-year action plan

  • The Union Education Ministry began a two-day meeting to review the progress of the National Education Policy’s implementation in States and Union Territories.
  • The meeting on Tuesday was attended by representatives of the National Council of Educational Research and Training, State Councils of Educational Research and Training, Central Board of Secondary Education, and Kendriya and Navodaya Vidyalaya representatives.

Highlights:

  • The main aim of the meeting was reviewing the NEP, 2020 and its implementation and alignment of the flagship schemes of the Ministry, such as Samagra Shiksha, PM SHRI, PM Poshan and ULLAS. He said the meeting would help in developing an NEP road map for the coming five years.
  • Discussions would be held on:
    • the five-year action plan; 100-day action plan;
    • status of the progress of infrastructure and civil works,
    • ICT and smart classrooms under Samagra Shiksha;
    • discussion on the status and setting up of Vidya Samiksha Kendras and 200 educational channels;
    • finalization of data for the Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE+) for 2023-24; best practices;
  • Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Odisha might come on board PM-SHRI under the NEP by mid-July. However, States such as Delhi, West Bengal and Punjab were still at loggerheads with the Centre over various facets of NEP implementation.
  • “The implications of coming on board are to ensure seamless transition of students migrating to different universities and ensuring transfer of credits smoothly, one of the long-term visions of the National Credit Framework under NEP, 2020”.
  • The Union Education Minister said that in its four years of implementation, the NEP had made considerable progress.
    • He stressed the importance of education in the mother tongue and in Indian languages, and urged the States to work as a unit with the Centre to replicate best practices.
  • In a first, the Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur said it would start offering its B.Tech. programme in Hindi and English, and two sections would be identified based on preferences for lectures in respective languages.
    • “The institute has further mentioned that the courses will be taught in both languages by the same instructor to ensure the same rigor”

Prelims Takeaway:

  • NEP 2020
  • Concurrent List

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