By Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday the National Education Policy was “a huge initiative to bring a fundamental change within the education setup of the country” as he addressed the centenary convocation ceremony of the University of Mysore.
PM Modi talked about NEP 2020 in his virtual address and said how it had been a ‘major mission’ which will cause ‘fundamental changes’ within the country’s education setup. “The National Education Policy may be a major mission to bring fundamental changes within the education setup of our country, from pre-nursery to PhD,” he said. “We’re that specialize in a multi-dimensional approach to form the capable youth of our country more competitive. We’re trying to form them flexible and adaptable for changing nature of jobs,” he added.
The Prime Minister also noted how NEP, on the one hand, is improving the longer term of the education sector, while on the opposite is additionally empowering the youth. He also mentioned how, at every level of education, gross enrolment of women was above that of boys. “Even in education , and in innovation and technology, the participation of women has increased,” PM Modi said.
PM Modi also mentioned how, over the last six years, one new Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), on the average , has been found out by his government. one among these new IITs, he acknowledged , was opened in Dharwad, which, a bit like the University of Mysore, is in Karnataka.
On Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), he said seven new IIMs are opened in only six years, as compared to only 13 before 2014. On the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), he said while within the last six decades there have been only seven AIIMS operational , since 2014, almost double the number—15 – are either operational or in process of being established.
