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National Education Policy

Pradhan insists TN must implement NEP for release of SSA funds

Even as the Tamil Nadu government has moved the Supreme Court to secure the release of ₹2,152 crore under the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) programme, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday said the amount due to the State would be released only after it implements the National Education Policy (NEP).

Miles to go before the NEP delivers

India's third proper education policy since Independence, the New National Education Policy saw the light of day on 29 July 2020 with the commitment of major changes in the education system of the country. When the policy was announced in the midst of the pandemic to aim at bringing about much needed transformational changes in the country's education system with a global perspective, skillbased learning seemed to have been prioritised with the use of modern technology.

Education in Retreat

The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 rightly aims to introduce vocational education at all levels by integrating vocational education into mainstream education, in all educational institutions, by 2030. NEP also proposes to remove the ‘hard separation‘ between the vocational and academic streams and overcome the stigma attached to vocational education. However, implementation of NEP 2020 seems to be running far behind schedule