Union Home Minister Amit Shah claims that the entire country has accepted the National Education Policy. File photo | Photo Credit: ANI
The new National Education Policy (NEP) has been accepted by all and the entire country is working to implement it, unlike NEPs in the past that created controversy due to ideological linkages, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said. .
Addressing graduating students at the fourth convocation of Gujarat Central University on Sunday, Mr Shah said that NEP 2020 will work to bring education out of the confines of narrow thinking, and asked teachers to understand its implications by breaking it down “lines”. should read “between”. ,
“Generally, education policies have a history of getting mired in controversies. There were two NEPs in the past and they were always surrounded by controversies. There were several commissions in between for the implementation of educational reforms, but they were always surrounded by controversies. ” Mr Shah said.
Referring to the controversies, he said, unfortunately, it has been a tradition to link our education policy with ideology and mold it in the mold of that ideology.
But no one could oppose or accuse the education policy bought by Narendra Modiji in 2022. In a way, the whole society has accepted it and the whole country is moving forward to implement it.
Shri Shah appealed to the teachers to study the new education policy specially, because only when they read it in the “middle lines” they can understand its implications.
He said that the education policy is going to bring Indian education out of narrow mindedness and provide a platform to the students from their childhood till the end of their education.
“The aim of education is to make (a student) a complete human being, and this NEP gives you the option to become one. The task of the new education policy is to create a citizen who is imbued with feelings of national pride as with Only world welfare,” he said.
Shri Shah also asked the graduating students to take at least one pledge regarding their contribution to the country after 25 years when the country is celebrating its centenary.
The home minister said, “If 130 crore people take a pledge, it will be enough to make the country great. If each of the 130 crore people takes one step, the country will take 130 crore steps.”
He said the Modi government has also worked towards job creation and its start-up policy aims to increase their number from 724 in 2016-17 to over 70,000 in 2022.
At least 107 Indian start-ups have become unicorns, he said, adding that the number of patent applications also increased from 3,000 in 2014 to 1.5 lakh in 2021-22.
“Out of 24,000 patents, 23,000 are individual patents,” Mr. Shah said.