Name: Parmjit Kaur
Country: India

Year: 2025
Volume: Volume-15, Issue-1 (SPL ISSUE)
Page Number: 72 - 77

Well defined and futuristic education policy is essential for a country at school and college
levels due to the reason that education leads to economic and social progress. Different
countries adopt different education systems by considering the tradition and culture and adopt
different stages during their life cycle at school and college education levels to make it
effective. The National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020), which was approved by the
Union Cabinet of India on 29 July 2020, outlines the vision of India's new education system.
The new policy replaces the previous National Policy on Education, 1986. The policy is a
comprehensive framework for elementary education to higher education as well as vocational
training in both rural and urban India. The policy aims to transform India's education system
by 2021.
Shortly after the release of the policy, the government clarified that no one will be forced to
study any particular language and that the medium of instruction