Education Policy in India: Changes, Challenges and Implementation

Education in India had been a very crucial factor behind its development as a nation now. But the journey of development of the education system had been a very difficult one because there had been several shifts in authority and rule in India. The nation had went through a lot of changes. Thus there had been a different mode of education in Vedic, Post Vedic, Medieval period (Mughal Empire), Colonial period and Post - independence period. The education system in India was itself fragmentary in nature until the medieval age. But since the advent of the Britishers on the Indian soil and taking possession of the country, they had managed to change the notion of education in India. They established several educational institutions as well as several policies for the betterment of education. And it was through the Britishers that we got the post independence vigor and base of establishing a particular Indianized mode of education. And since independence there had been three specific national education policy, which brought significant changes in the education system in India. These education policies not only provide solutions to the existing issues but also talk about the problems inherent in our system which needed to be sorted as soon as possible and it also requires consistent modification with time.