New Education Policy 2020

2.  Anganwadi Centers will be strengthened with
high quality infrastructure, play equipment and
well-trained Anganwadi workers/teachers.
 All school children shall undergo regular health
checkups organized by the schools and for this
health cards will be issued to them.
 Open and Distance Learning (ODL) programs
offered by the National Institute of Open
Schooling (NIOS) will be expanded and
strengthened for meeting the learning needs of
young people in India who are not able to
attend a physical school.

4.  Learning should be Holistic, Integrated,
Inclusive, Enjoyable, and Engaging.
 Restructuring school curriculum and pedagogy
in a new design: 5+3+3+4
 Foundational : 3 years of preschool + Grades
1-2
Preparatory : Grades 3-5
middle : Grades 6-8 and
High school : Grades 9-12 in two phases, i.e.,
9 and 10 in the first and 11 and 12 in the
second stages, with an option of exiting at class
10 and re-entering in the next phases.

5.  Shift towards competency-based learning
and education.
 Curriculum content will be reduced in each
subject to its core essentials, to make space
for critical thinking and more holistic,
discovery-based, discussion-based, and
analysis-based learning.
 Students will be given increased flexibility
and choice of subjects to study, particularly
in secondary school-including subjects in
physical education, the arts, and vocational
crafts.

6.  There will be no hard separation among
‘curricular’, ‘extra-curricular’, or ‘co-curricular’
areas , among ‘arts’, ‘humanities’, and
‘sciences’, or between ‘vocational’ or
‘academic’ streams.
 The medium of instruction until at least
Grades 5, but preferably till Grades 8 and
beyond, will be the home language/mother-
tongue/local language.
 Sanskrit will be offered at all levels of school
and higher education as an important,
enriching option for students.

7.  Basic training in health, including preventive
health, mental health, nutrition, personal and
public hygiene, and first-aid will also be
included in the curriculum.
 Concerted efforts will be made by
NCERT,SCERTs school and educators, to
significantly reduce the weight of school bags
and textbook that students are asked to carry to
and from school on a daily basis.
 All students will be allowed to take Board
Exams on up to two occasions during any given
school year, one main examination and one for
improvement.

8.  All students will take State School
examinations in Grades 3,5 and 8 in addition
to board Examination in Grades 10 and 12.
 The National Assessment Centre for
School Education (NACSE) shall be a
standard-setting Body under the Ministry of
Education (MoE).
 Topic-centered an Project-based Clubs and
Circles will be highly encouraged and
supported at the levels of schools, school
complexes, districts, and beyond.

10.  Modal Public universities for holistic education,
at par with IITs, IIMs, etc., called MERUs
(Multidisciplinary Education and Research
Universities) will be set up and aim to reach the
global status.
 High performing Indian Universities will be
encouraged to set up composes in other
countries, and similarly, select universities(e.g.,
those from among the top 100 universities in
the world) will be permitted to operate in India.
 Opportunities for PhD students to assist faculty
as teaching assistants must be created as part
of all PhD programs.

11.  Sarva shiksha abhiyan (SSA)/ right to
education (RTE).
 National program for education of girls at
elementary level (NPEGEL).
 Rashtriya madhyamik shiksha abhiyan
(RMSA).
 Inclusive education for the disabled at
secondary stage (IEDSS).
 Saakshar bharat / adult education.

13.  The new policy will lay special emphasis
on the removal of disparities and to
equalize educational opportunity by
attending to the specific needs of those
who have been denied equality so far.

14.  Education will be used as an agent of basic
change in the status of women. There will be
a well-conceived edge in favor of women.
The National Education System will play a
positive interventionist role in the
empowerment of women.
 Provision of special support services.
 Setting of the targets.
 Effective monitoring.

15.  The central forces is their equalization with
the non SC population at all stages and
levels of education.
Measures include:-
 Incentives to families to send their children
regularly top school till the age of 14.
 Pre-metric scholarships schemes.
 Recruitment of teachers from scheduled
castes.

16.  Wherever feasible, the education of children
with motor handicaps be common with that of
others.
 Special schools with hostels will be provided,
for the severely handicapped children.
 Adequate arrangements to give vocational
training to the disabled.

17.  This includes:-
 Minorities
 Adult education

18.  This includes:-
 Early childhood care and education
 Elementary education
 Child centered
 School facilities
 Non-Formal education

19.  Secondary education
 Vocationalization
 Higher education
 Open university
 Delinking jobs from degree
 Rural university

20. 1. Deep concern had been shown by the prime
minister in formulation of NPE.
2. The nation wide debate was conducted for
the formulation of the policy.
3. The program of action was checked out.
4. The ministry of education was renamed as
ministry of Human Resource Development.
5. The policy is decentralization.

21. 6. Equality of educational opportunities.
7. Vocational & Technical education has
received a very high priority.
8. The policy emphasizes recruitment of
teachers of on merit improvement.

22.  Neglecting the neighborhood school’s
concept.
 Multiplication of authorities.
 No place for basic education.
 Silence over the existence of public schools
& their commercilation.
 Financial implication of the implementation of
educational reforms haven’t been worked
out.

23.  Today , we have discussed about the
national educational policy.
 Introduction, recent developments,
definition, objectives, programs,
merits, & limitations.