National Education Policy 2020: The Challenges & Possibilities Ahead

Abstract

Education has always been regarded as the foundation on which the human resource potential can be fully utilized for productive purposes. Access to quality education is the best gift which can be given to the youth of any nation. In India, the National Education Policy 2020 (henceforth NEP) was introduced on July 20, 2020. It also marked a renaming of the Ministry of Human Resource Development as Ministry of Education. With the aim of transforming the nation into a vibrant knowledge hub, the NEP has many challenges and possibilities ahead and the present paper is a survey of the same.