Implementing NEP-20 – A Road map for HEIs | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

ABSTRACT

It is three years plus since the National Education Policy-2020 (NEP-20) was introduced. It aimed at restructuring and reforming the entire Education System to facilitate and fulfil our commitment towards Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4). India committed in 2015 to make education affordable, assessable, world class, inclusive and which could provide lifelong learning opportunity in a multi-disciplinary and collaborative environment by 2030. While intent of NEP-20 was quite good, there is lot to be done on implementation front. Efforts have been made at various levels but picture remains quite hazy. There are issues related to regulatory bodies. Education being in concurrent list of state and centre, at some places political issues posed problems. Besides resources and funding it needed strong will at management level. State to state, institute to institute it lacked level playing field, with the result that some institutes claim to have implemented some part of the policy where as others put the blame on governance level for hold ups. Still if there is will and resources implementation of major part of NEP-20 does not need approval from others and there is possibility for HEIs to implement most of the spirit of NEP if not complete words. This paper examines the current status of implementation. It also tries to provide a blue print of the road map to implement NEP-20 effectively at HEI level within their own resources, and provides abc of NEP implementation in practical terms for HEIs.