National Educational Policy: Transformational Step towards 5 Trillion Economy
The nation is in the process of transformation by launching the National Education Policy under the visionary leadership of our Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Honorable HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank. Education is one of the most important transformers of the economy, and the National Education Policy has made a sincere attempt to transform all the sectors and segments of the educational sector of the economy to ensure sustained supply of world-class manpower to make India one of the global superpowers. The New National Education Policy 2020 shall replace the National Educational Policy launched in 1986, which was launched after replacing the previous policy document of 1968.
The National Educational Policy is a transformational initiative to bring a paradigm shift in the domain of education in our country in both qualitative and quantitative dimensions. The focus is on universalization of Primary education by taking the GER in Primary Education to 100 per cent by 2030 and has envisioned a mission of achieving GER of 50 per cent in Higher Education.
