Miles to go. . .

The new National Education Policy (NEP) has been welcomed and castigated in equal measure by commentators along predictable lines. An omnibus document, the National Education Policy 2020, has been designed as a panacea for all ills of the education system, at all levels. The NEP ran into controversy the day its draft was published in May 2019, because the NEP proposed universal teaching of Hindi in lower classes. Hopefully, with the controversy now resolved, the Government can get down to the implementation of the NEP. The NEP recommends a number of fundamental changes.