Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday directed the Education Department to ensure speedy implementation of the new initiatives launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi so that the state's target of ensuring successful implementation of national education policy (NEP) by the year 2025 can be completed.
On the occasion of completion of one year of implementation of national education policy-2020 in India, the Prime Minister had launched various new initiatives for the education sector. He addressed the Governors, Chief Ministers, Education Ministers and educationists of the states.
Khattar alongwith other Cabinet Ministers also participated in this programme through video conferencing from Chandigarh.
During the programme, the Prime Minister launched Vidya Pravesh, Indian Sign Language as a Subject and Nishtha 2.0. Besides this, he launched the Academic Bank of Credit that will provide multiple entry and exit options for students in higher education, first-year engineering programmes in regional languages and guidelines for internationalization of higher education.
Similarly, other initiatives including SAFAL (Structured Assessment for Analyzing Learning), a competency based assessment framework for Classes 3, 5 and 8 in CBSE schools, National Digital Education Architecture and National Education Technology Platform were also launched by the Prime Minister.
In his address, Modi said that the National Education Policy-2020 will prove to be a strong foundation for a Atamnirbhar India. It is the first Education Policy of the 21st century and replaces the 34 year old National Policy Education (NPE), of 1986, he said.
He further said that this new education policy is in line with the needs of the 21st century.
Modi urged the teachers to contribute in the successful implementation of the education policy and educate the youth and take them forward towards nation building.