Modi-led Niti meeting today on ways to strengthen NEP

The meeting, which will culminate in a road map for education under the NEP-2020 for school education, is likely to focus on five areas

- Manash Gohain

The Niti Aayog governing council will on Sunday deliberate on the key elements of the New Education Policy and look for ways to strengthen it by addressing issues of access, foundational literacy, use of technology, foundational learning, and teacher education. Also in focus will be school education and gender parity, inclusion of socio-economically disadvantaged groups, access including online and open and distance education, rankings, and Indian knowledge system (IKS).

The agenda of the meeting, to be chaired by PM Narendra Modi, includes the major challenges and recommendations noted in the first national conference of chief secretaries on the implementation of the NEP-2020. The meeting, which was also chaired by the PM, was held in June in Himachal Pradesh.