NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY 2020 AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MUSIC EDUCATION

Present paper highlights the basic features of NEP 2020 and the importance of music education to the Indian educational system. It identifies the prospects, problems and proffered possible solutions to them. In achieving its objectives, the study uses ethnographic and qualitative methods with simple percentages for eliciting and collation of data. The paper suggests that the society, the curriculum planners, and the government have much to do so music education is appreciated in India. It proposes as part of its recommendations that the government provide necessary facilities and personnel for music to thrive as a vocational subject; and that parents and the larger society must become educated on the usefulness of music as a career subject worth pursuing by pupils. The present paper focused on the study of basic features of NEP 2020 and the importance of music education to the Indian educational systemwith prime objectives are (i) To discuss the basic features of NEP 2020. (ii) To understand the basics of Music Education in India.(iii)To discuss the Significance of Indian Music in daily life. The methodology of the research is a different type involving an interpretative, conversation, observation and study secondary sources, like books, articles, journals, thesis, university news, expert opinion, and websites, etc.