India was running in according to National Policy on Education drafted in 1986, until the Modi Government in 2020 picked up the gauntlet to unveil New National Education Policy (NEP) in 2020 with the aim to make India a ‘global knowledge superpower’. And the state of Madhya Pradesh under the governance of CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan is all set to become India’s first state to religiously follow the NEP.
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NEP: New System of Education
National Education Policy was launched with agenda of making, “India a global knowledge superpower”. The step was lauded as it was an attempt to replace the National Policy on Education of 1986 and bring in a new system for the 21st century.
The National Education Policy seeks to reduce the content load in the school education curriculum and extend the Right to Education Act 2009 to cover children between the age group of 3 to 18 years. The government also announced that the single-stream higher education institutions will be phased out over time, and the country will move towards becoming multidisciplinary.
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The New National Education Policy seeks to promote a multi-lingual approach with aim to establish mother tongue or regional languages as the medium of instruction. And it seems that the Madhya Pradesh government led by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has given it a religious turn while implementing this idea.
MP College to teach MBBS in Hindi
According to a recent announcement by MP CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Madhya Pradesh is all set to become the first state in India to impart medical education in Hindi with the aim of benefiting students. The announcement was made by CM Chauhan at the end of the two-day brainstorming meet in hill tourism hotspot Pachmarhi.
The idea behind imparting education in regional languages was simple, to boost the use of mother tongue and regional languages and free India from the clutches of foreign language. The focus is also to remove the inferiority complex felt by students coming from lower economic classes who are not well versed with English.
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Is has been thought and propagated by PM Modi himself that if other nations can use their mother tongues for professional educations, why should we Indians remain slaves of English?
According to CM Chauhan, the decision has been taken to benefit the students coming from poorer and middle class backgrounds. The developments in this direction have already begun as books in Hindi language are being readied and reports suggest new Hindi based system will commence from this year in a college in Bhopal named Gandhi Medical College.
The Shivraj government has further plans and is not ready to hold its juggernaut with just MBBS course. As after this, the government is planning to introduce Hindi medium engineering education, along with identical systems for other professional courses.
The Modi Government’s step to unveil National Education Policy and the decision of the states to follow it is going to greet India with the tag of global superpower of knowledge in the current years.
