NEP 2020: A sustainable vision towards reformation in education sector

Abstract

Indian educational system attained a very engrossing inflection point along with the initiation of National Education policy (NEP, 2020). On one hand, it lays guidelines to shed the outdated model of education and on the other hand, new digital platforms of learning, teaching and innovative practices of teaching are expediting it to global standards to achieve the agenda of education for all and for creating a new benchmarks in the sector of education. The new provisions of NEP 2020 provide assurance of a span-new approach of teaching and learning. A rigorously educated generation with an inflated literacy rate will be empowered to undertake social, economic, and political roles responsibly with an overreaching consciousness about the global issues. Such a dream is envision is embedded in the NEP 2020. After the full implementation of this policy, it will provide a long term spectrum not only to the students, teachers, parents but also the whole society in the form of sustainable career and balanced ecological environment. Along with this it will emphasis on holistic view of education and practicality of the concepts. The emergence of the corona virus has taught all of us to work towards such a platform which can provide us sustainability in both the ways-firstly to maintain a balanced give and take relationship with the environment by reducing the load on the natural resources and secondly, to innovate such methods of working that can be used when situations will be unfavourable and livelihood can be earned in adverse circumstances.