National Education Policy - 2020: Milestone towards Strengthening Holistic and Multidisciplinary Education in India

The world is undergoing rapid changes in the knowledge landscape. With various dramatic scientific and technological advances, such as the rise of big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, many unskilled jobs worldwide may be taken over by machines, while the need for a skilled workforce, particularly involving mathematics, computer science, and data science, in conjunction with multidisciplinary abilities across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, will be increasingly in greater demand. In this paper an attempt has been made to understand evolution of education policy in India and overview on New Education Policy - 2020, its background and formation and its vision elaborately. This policy has made new phenomenon in higher education in 21st century. It describes the key concerns of holistic approach to multidisciplinary education.