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Education Nation

NEW EDUCATION, NEW POLICY,

AND MAKING OF A NEW INDIA

Just as mother's milk is the only source of nutrition for an
infant's healthy development. Education, like food, is an
essential component of living a meaningful life from birth to
death. However, the goal of education should be to develop
the human resources needed to move the country forward,
not just to prepare degree holders. This is the primary goal
of the new National Education Policy. On July 29, two years
of this education policy will be completed. After two years
of numerous initiatives ranging from school education to
skill development, it is now time to move forward with higher
education churning.. From July 7 to 9, 300 personalities from
the country's education sector gathered in Varanasi — the city
of religion, spirituality, and knowledge— to discuss how to
achieve this goal. Prime Minister Narendra Modi initiated
this brainstorming on July 7th.

ur country has never been short on talent THE SIX KEY POINTS FROM PM MODI'S
and intellect. Unfortunately, such a system SPEECH
Owas developed during the time of slavery, 1. The basic premise of the National Policy on
when education was thought to mean only one Education is to liberate education from narrow
thing: a job. The British's goal at the time was to thinking and integrate it with contemporary
create a servant class for themselves. There has ideas for the 21st century. Our education
been some change since independence, but much system should not only prepare degree-holding
remains to be done. As a result, the expected youth, but should also provide the country
results were not met. This system began to with whatever human resources it requires to
change in 2020 with the implementation of the move forward. Our teachers and educational
new National Education Policy. A policy in which institutions have to spearhead this resolution.
education is used to help youth build their future 2. India is now one of the world's fastest growing
rather than just get jobs. At the Akhil Bharatiya large economies. We are now the world's third
Shiksha Samagam on July 7, Prime Minister largest startup ecosystem. In areas such as
Narendra Modi stated, "The basic premise of the space technology, where the government
National Education Policy is to take education used to do everything, private players are now
out of narrow-minded circles and integrate it with creating a new world for the youth. For the
modern ideas of the 21st century." daughters of the country, sectors that were

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