New education policy 2020: Restructuring school curriculum

Restructuring school curriculum: The NEP recommends that the existing structure of school education must be restructured to make it more relevant to the needs of students at different stages of their development. PM SHRI: 14,500 schools across India: quality education , cognitive development, and 21st-century skills in students. DIKSHA: to enhance teacher training and professional development by accelerating innovative educational solutions and experiments. The new education policy must provide to all students, irrespective of their place of residence, a quality education system, with particular focus on historically marginalized, disadvantaged, and underrepresented groups. National Education Policy , 2020Why in News Recently, the Union Cabinet has approved the new National Education Policy (NEP), 2020 with an aim to introduce several changes in the Indian education system - from the school to college level. The NEP 2020 aims at making “India a global knowledge superpower”. The Cabinet has also approved the renaming of the Ministry of Human Resource Development to the Ministry of Education . The NEP cleared by the Cabinet is only the third major revamp of the ...