NEP 2020: A 5-Year Transformation in Indian Schooling

📍 Structural Reforms & Learning Shift

✅ Introduced 5+3+3+4 system, replacing 10+2

✅ NCF-SE 2023 promotes competency-based learning

✅ Board exams: 50% questions now competency-based

✅ Multilingual textbooks like Mridang, Sarangi, Joyful Mathematics

📍 Foundational Learning & ECCE

✅ 85% brain development occurs before age 6 – focus on ECCE + FLN

✅ Launched NIPUN Bharat, Vidya Pravesh, Balvatikas

✅ 12.97 lakh teachers trained under NISHTHA for FLN

✅ Jadui Pitara & e-Jadui Pitara bring play-based multilingual learning

✅ PARAKH & ASER 2024: Govt school kids outperform private peers in Grade 3 reading & math

📍 Equity & Inclusion

✅ Samagra Shiksha enhanced dropout reduction & school access

✅ 1.15 lakh SEDG students in inclusive hostels; 7.58 lakh girls in KGBVs

✅ NIOS & PM JANMAN provide flexible education & hostel infra for tribal learners

✅ PRASHAST App enables early disability screening; ISL introduced in schools

📍 Technology for Learning

✅ DIKSHA: QR-coded multilingual content, teacher training modules

✅ PM eVidya: 200 DTH channels ensure education access

✅ Rashtriya Vidya Samiksha Kendra: Data-driven decision-making

📍 Assessment Reform

✅ Shift from rote to formative & holistic evaluation

✅ Holistic Progress Cards (HPCs) now track academic + emotional growth

✅ PARAKH & SQAAF ensure quality & equity in school standards

📍 Vocational & Skill Education

✅ Vocational education starts from Grade 6

✅ National Credit Framework (NCrF) aligns school and skill education

📍 Recognition

✅ UNESCO’s King Sejong Literacy Prize (2021) for inclusive efforts

🔆 Conclusion

NEP 2020 is creating classrooms that are flexible, multilingual, inclusive, and joyful. It aims to nurture confidence, curiosity, and capability, not just test scores.

📝The NEP 2020 seeks to reimagine education by making it inclusive, engaging, and future-ready.

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