Shillong, July 27 : Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Samagam inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi on July 7, 2023 in Varanasi brought together over 300 Vice-Chancellors and Directors from public and private universities, educationists, policymakers and industry representatives to deliberate on implementation of National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020) after successful implementation of several initiatives in the last two years.
“Our education system and young generation carry a big part of realizing the pledges of the Amrit Kaal. The basic premise of the NEP is to take education out of narrow thinking and connect it with modern ideas of the 21st century. Our youth should be skilled, confident, practical and calculative, education policy is preparing the ground for this”, the PM said.
Meghalaya is pursuing to implement NEP 2020 in the Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) based on principles of flexibility; no hard separations between disciplines, multi-disciplinarity, holistic education, multiple- entry and exits, conceptual understanding on creativity and critical thinking, ethics and human and constitutional values, life skills, respect for diversity and the local context, with focus on equity an inclusion.
There will be a Core Group with the Principal Secretary as the Chairman, the Secretary, Education Department, Director of School Education and Literacy, Director of Educational Research and Training and Director of Higher and Technical Education as members.
North-Eastern Hill University has taken initiatives in capacity building, training and meeting for the faculties of the university and faculties of the affiliating colleges since 2020 on the recommended actions points of NEP 2020 for HEIs and has assured the State Government that relevant trainings will be provided to colleges from time to time by the University in order to ease successful implementation of NEP 2020 at the college level. The University has already implemented the NEP 2020 for the Post Graduate level for academic session 2022 – 23. The 27th Emergent Academic Council of NEHU held on March 28, 2023 had structured and approved the Curriculum and Credit Framework for Undergraduate Programmes to be adopted by the HEIs. The University has proposed to start with a Four-Year Under Graduate Programme (FYUP) from the upcoming academic session.
