Objective Of NEP To Correct Past Anomalies: Union Minister Jitendra Singh

Union minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said the two-fold objective of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is to correct past anomalies and introduce contemporary provisions that are in keeping with the present global trends.

Union minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said the two-fold objective of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is to correct past anomalies and introduce contemporary provisions that are in keeping with the present global trends. He was addressing the Cluster University teachers here at an interactive academic programme on the NEP-2020, organised as part of the "Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav".

Singh emphasised that the demography of education has changed region-wise, gender-wise and profile-wise, which can be judged from the fact that women now have a greater representation in civil services and people from other regions are topping different exams, which was earlier the prerogative of only a few regions.

He stressed that the responsibility of educationists today is not to award a degree but to teach to achieve ease of living, which can happen only when youngsters are able to find a sustainable start-up source of living for themselves, instead of harping on government jobs. The Union minister of state for personnel said the greatest anomaly in the previous education policy was the nomenclature itself and the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) was a misnomer, misrepresentative in itself, having other connotations.

He further said as India has now become a part of the global world and is being recognised as "Jagat Guru", the education parameters should be in keeping with the global standards if it has to compete and excel globally, according to a statement issued by the personnel ministry. Singh said one of the new provisions of the NEP-2020 in the form of multiple entry-and-exit option is something to be cherished as this academic flexibility will have a positive impact on the students as regards availing of different career opportunities at different times, depending upon their intrinsic leaning and inherent aptitude.