NEW EDUCATION POLICY 2020: A REVISIONIST APPROACH TOWARDS HOLISTIC LEARNING

There is no hidden fact that Education and development are the two sides of the same coin and with various advancements in different genres of studies, the role of quality Education cannot be underestimated. It indeed can be considered as an essential ingredient for a better understanding of life and opportunities, as it paves the way for a holistic development of the individual, society and of course the nation at large. There have been several initiatives taken by the concerned authorities in the past to improve the methodology of Education, where some approaches proved to be effective while in some, few changes were required, according to the overall development of students and the teachers of the concerned departments. This year in the month of July, the Indian government announced a new Education policy (NEP 2020), after a huge gap of thirty-four years. The paper intends to introduce the currently proposed policy and highlight the important changes done for the effective working of the Education sector. Also, it offers a comparative analysis of the effectiveness of the policies in the past and predicted implications of the newly proposed policy.