Policies & Principles: The NEP Is Selectively Invoked to Justify Any plan that strikes the Union government’s fancy
Sukanta Chaudhuri | 07 April 2025 | The Telegraph
Bengalis may take comfort that the epicentre of Centre-state wrangles about education (and other issues) has passed for now to the southern states, Tamil Nadu in particular. The National Education Policy of 2020 is a favoured weapon of war.
The NEP has become the flavour of all educational seasons. It is invoked for all deeds of commission and omission. Few citizens actually read it; I wonder how many officials do. Yet it is available on the education ministry’s portal, and is a remarkably short document given its compass…