The Draft National Education Policy: A Distressing Attempt to Redefine India

Abstract

After thirty three years of the former national policy document on Education was commissioned by the Government of India, the Draft National Education Policy (NEP), 2019 was anticipated to empirically evaluate the accomplishments and catastrophes of the preceding National Policy on Education, gauge the new challenges that got materialised in the intervening years, and articulate an apparition that could vigorously associated democratic aspirations and ground realities to Constitutional directives in this substantial zone of nation-building. In its place, we have before us a document that frustrates these expectations. Momentous initiatives have been left unassisted and as a consequence, stand diluted. This paper presents the loopholes in the draft NEP, 2019.