Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ214233

What to Expect from the National Education Policy 2020

Authors(1) :-Dr. S. Mehdi Abbas Zaidi

In 1986, India established and executed its first education policy. After 34 years, India's National Education Policy was released in 2020, marking a new milestone in the country's educational system. "Access, Equity, Quality, Affordability, and Accountability" are the cornerstones of the policy. It has the potential to turn the country into a thriving information centre. It emphasises systemic and institutional changes in India's higher education establishments' regulation, governance, and promotion of multidisciplinary academics and research. Learning will be less stressful and more learner-centered as a result of its student-centric approach. It also fosters a vibrant and responsive research ecosystem, which is required to advance India's economic, social, and intellectual progress. Teachers, who are the foundation of any educational system, have received special attention in policy, with the creation of National Professional Standards for Teachers and the development of a performance-based reward system for them. The existing educational system, which has been criticised for being strict and repetitious, focusing more on material and outcomes, will now give way to the National Education Policy, which intends to stimulate creativity and innovation. With a comparison of the NEP 2020 and current policy, this paper attempts to look at the education system through the decades of numerous commissions to the present.

Authors and Affiliations

Dr. S. Mehdi Abbas Zaidi
Associate Professor, Shia P. G. College, Lucknow, U.P., India

Education, NEP, Teachers.

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 4 | Issue 5 | September-October 2021
Date of Publication : 2021-09-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 34-40
Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ214233
Publisher : Shauryam Research Institute

ISSN : 2581-6306

Cite This Article :

Dr. S. Mehdi Abbas Zaidi, "What to Expect from the National Education Policy 2020", Shodhshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (SHISRRJ), ISSN : 2581-6306, Volume 4, Issue 5, pp.34-40, September-October.2021
URL : https://shisrrj.com/SHISRRJ214233

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