A long roadway: On National Education Policy 2020

The National Education Policy 2020 announced by the Ministry of Personnel Advancement sets for itself the objective of changing the system to fulfill the requirements of 21 st Century India. In a federal system, any educational reform can be carried out just with assistance from the States, and the Centre has the huge job of building a consensus on the numerous ambitious strategies. The policy, inter alia, intends to get rid of problems of pedagogy, structural inequities, gain access to asymmetries and widespread commercialisation. The NEP 2020 is the very first omnibus policy after the one provided in 1986, and it needs to contend with several crises in the system. It is no secret that primary schools record shockingly poor literacy and numeracy outcomes, dropout