Taking a step towards ensuring successful implementation of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 in the State by the year 2025, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday formally launched NEP 2020.
He said that for the successful implementation of this policy in Haryana, every child would be enrolled in the school by reducing the dropout rate in the state, so that emphasis could be laid on his all-round development right from initial learning of the child.
Addressing the gathering and academicians and students who joined the programme in Panchkula, digitally, he said that the infrastructure required for implementing the NEP-2020 in Haryana has already been prepared with an aim to empower the students with knowledge, skills and values by imparting quality education.
The NEP-2020 will be completely implemented by the year 2025. Although the deadline for its implementation is till 2030, Haryana will achieve this target five years in advance, he announced.
Khattar said that Haryana aims to track every child by reducing the dropout rate in schools, for this data analysis of every family member registered under the Parivar Pehchan Patra started by the State Government will be done.
Adequate number of schools, colleges and other educational institutions are available in the state ensuring the successful implementation of NEP-2020. Still, if there is any shortcoming, then the state government is committed to remove such shortcomings at the earliest, he added.
The Chief Minister further said that as per the policy, about 4,000 playway schools are being opened in the state focussing on early age education since the age of three years. So far 1135 schools have been opened, he informed.
He said that 113 new Sanskriti Model Schools have been opened for imparting education in English and facilities on the lines of private schools and the total number of such schools has increased to 137. Besides this, as many as 1418 schools are being upgraded to English medium bag free schools, he added.
Khattar said that one of the goals of NEP-2020 is to make the Gross Enrollment Ratio of girls in higher education more than 50 percent by the year 2030. Haryana is ahead in this direction too as the GER of girls here is 32 percent, he said.
INSTITUTIONS TO GIVE EDUCATION FROM KG TO PG
The Chief Minister informed that such educational institutions are being set up in the state, in which education will be provided from KG class to PG level.
"Initially we are going to make an arrangement of imparting education from KG to PG in four universities. Kurukshetra University has already started preparing for admission to be given under KG to PG scheme from this academic session that is 2021-22, he said.
The Chief Minister said that the State Government has opened a separate University 'Shri Vishwakarma Kaushal Vishwavidyalaya' for imparting skill development.
The University has forged strong links with industries and 94 MoUs have been signed. As many as 34 Diploma, Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes are being run in this university. As many as 4,755 students have been trained through short duration and regular courses, informed the Chief Minister.
He said that as per changing market scenario, many new courses have been identified by universities and of these, preparations are being made to impart skill training to about 71,000 youth, he added.
During the programme, the Chief Minister also launched the Buniyaad programme on the lines of Haryana FLN Mission and Super-100 for the promising students of class IX and X.
JULY 29 TO BE CELEBRATED AS NEW EDUCATION POLICY DAY
Khattar announced that July 29 will be celebrated every year as New Education Policy Day. On this day,the progress of the aims and objectives of the New Education Policy-2020 will be reviewed, he said. The Chief Minister said that sensitizing the teachers, educationists and stakeholders as well as the children, who are the real beneficiaries of this policy about NEP-2020 is the need of the hour.
For the successful implementation of NEP by the year 2025, a roadmap has been prepared by the senior officers of the Departments of Women and Child Development, School Education, Higher Education and Technical Education, he said. The work is also being done on the plan to set up a multi-disciplinary Education and Research University in Haryana, Khattar added.
