NEP promotes Indianisation of education system, Sonia should support it: Fadnavis
The Hindu
Maharashtra Chief Devendra Fadnavis endorses NEP 2020 for Indianisation of education system, urging Sonia Gandhi's support.
Endorsing the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, Maharashtra Chief Devendra Fadnavis on Monday (March 31, 2025) said that the policy promoted Indianisation of Indian education system and Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) chairperson Sonia Gandhi should support it.
Speaking in Nagpur, Mr. Fadnavis said, “I believe the education system in India is being Indianised now and NEP stands for Indianisation of the education system. If the education policy that Macaulay brought to enslave our country is being replaced and Indianised, I think no one should have any problem with that. Any patriot will support the NEP. I think Sonia Gandhi ji should know about this more and must fully support the Indianisation of the education system.”
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Thomas Babington Macaulay was a British historian and politician who introduced the Western system of education in India in the 19th Century.
Mr. Fadnavis’s statement came in response to Ms. Gandhi’s opinion piece published on The Hindu on March 31, 2025, titled, “The ‘3Cs’ that haunt Indian education today”. Ms. Gandhi wrote, “The introduction of the high-profile National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, has hidden the reality of a government that is profoundly indifferent to the education of India’s children and youth. The Union Government’s track record over the last decade has convincingly demonstrated that in education, it is concerned only with the successful implementation of three core agenda items — the centralisation of power with the Union Government; the commercialisation and outsourcing of investments in education to the private sector, and the communalisation of textbooks, curriculum, and institutions.”
Ms. Gandhi further wrote that in higher education, the government has brought in the draconian draft University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines of 2025 which have fully written out State governments from the appointment of Vice-Chancellors in universities established, funded, and operated by them.
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