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7 YEARS NEW NATIONAL EDUCATION

Building a New India POLICY AFTER 34 YEARS

India moves towards becoming

Global Knowledge Super Power

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been
constantly striving and determined to
improve the education system of the
country. As soon as he took over the
reigns of the country for the second time,
he radically changed India’s education
system and approved the new National
Education Policy 2020. At the same time,
uninterrupted education was imparted to
all sections during the Corona period, and a
fully paperless examination was conducted
through NTA for the first time in India …

In a bid to transform India’s education system the
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Central Government approved a new National Key Steps taken by Indian Government
Education Policy on July 29, 2020, which will bring to Promote E-Learning during Corona
radical changes in both school education and higher
education DIKSHA: It has more than 80,000 e-books in
The Central Government has introduced the new different languages created by CBSE, NCERT
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education policy after 34 years. This is the first and States/UTs for classes 1 to 12. Students
education policy of the 21st century and the third
education policy of India since 1968 and 1986 benefitted a lot by downloading its app
Under the National Education Policy 2020, a target
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of investing 6 per cent of the country’s GDP on
the education sector through the Centre-State E-pathshala:
cooperation NCERT has SwayamPrabha:
The new education policy aims at ensuring equal deployed 1886
n It has 32 D2H TV
access to all levels of education, equipping students audios, 2000 videos, channels transmitting
with the skills and knowledge they need, encouraging 696 e-books and educational content on
creative thinking, logical decisions and a sense of 504 Flip Books 24/7 basis. It is meant
innovation among students, removing linguistic for classes 1 to to support and reach
obligations, promoting the use of technology for 12 in different those who do not
differently-abled students languages have access to
Committed to imparting education to all, the Central the internet
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Government has widened the scope of right to
education from 3 to 18 years from the previous
bracket of 6 to 14 years. At the same time, the policy National Repository of Open Educational
aims to achieve 100 per cent literacy among youth Resources (NROER): It has a total of
and adults by 2030
A major change in the basic structure of school documents, 1,345 interactive, 1,664 audios,
n 14,527 files including 401 collections, 2,779
education has been made to replace 10+ 2 structure
of school curriculum with a 5+3+3+4 school 2,586 images and 6,153 videos in different
education system languages

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