Karnataka has officially become the first state in the country to implement National Education Policy (NEP- 2020), which aims at bringing fundamental changes in the education system.
Dharmendra Pradhan the Minister for Education, Skill Development, and Entrepreneurship virtually launching the policy on Monday and has now set an ideal example to other states of the country in going forward pertaining to the implementation of the NEP-2020.
The Union Minister also highlighted the challenges while implementing NEP and said, “I am confident looking into Karnataka’s intellectual capacity, it will come out as No 1 state.”
Addressing the gathering, Karnataka CM Bommai said, “If we want NEP to succeed, we must make it reach every child across the State. Digitisation is important to education for which we will bring a new digitisation policy,” as reported by PTI.
Bommai said that if implemented successfully, the new policy would free the education system from vertical silos, compartmentalisation and closed jacket structure of the teaching-learning process and in addition tablet, PC’s will also be given for first year degree course.
Under the policy, several programmes including revising the curriculum for colleges to the flexibility of offering multiple programmes are among some of the key initiatives that will be offered to students who would be taking admissions from the coming academic sessions.
