National Education Policy 2020 | NEP 2020 | Detailed Analysis

National Education Policy (NEP)
• NEP is a comprehensive framework to guide the development of education in the country.
• The need for a policy was first felt in 1964 when Congress MP Siddheshwar Prasad criticised the then government for lacking a vision and philosophy for education. The same year, a 17-member Education Commission, headed by then UGC Chairperson D S Kothari, was constituted to draft a national and coordinated policy on education. Based on the suggestions of this Commission, Parliament passed the first education policy in 1968.
• A new NEP usually comes along every few decades. India has had three to date.
1. The first came in 1968 under Indira Gandhi and
2. the second in 1986 under Rajiv Gandhi; the NEP of 1986 was revised in 1992 when P V Narasimha Rao was Prime Minister.
3. The third is the NEP released Wednesday under the Prime Ministership of Narendra Modi.

Legality of NEP
• The NEP only provides a broad direction and is not mandatory to follow. Since education is a concurrent subject (both the Centre and the state governments can make laws on it), the reforms proposed can only be implemented collaboratively by the Centre and the states.
• Tamil Nadu for instance don’t follow the Three - Language formula that was prescribed by the first education policy in 1968.

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