PM Modi launches several educational initiatives while addressing nation on first NEP anniversary
- Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi addressed the nation via video conferencing on July 29, 2021 to mark the completion of one year of announcing the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
- As a part of the occasion, PM launched multiple initiatives in the education sector.
The initiatives are listed below.
- Academic Bank of Credit: This initiative will provide multiple entry and exit options for students in higher education.
- Multiple entry/exit means students can select the course of their choice and can exit if they are not interested. Students need not stick to a particular stream.
- First-year engineering programmes in regional languages.
- 14 engineering colleges in eight states will offer courses in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Bengali. This will benefit those from economically disadvantaged families.
- Guidelines for the internationalisation of higher education.
- This could include the study in India scheme and other incentives to foreign institutes setting up campuses in the country. “Office of international education has been set up at 250 plus universities and this will enable attract foreign education.
- Vidya Pravesh: Vidya Pravesh is a three-month play-based school preparation module for Grade 1 students.
- Indian Sign Language: Indian Sign Language will be included as a subject at the secondary level
- NISHTHA 2.0: NISHTHA 2.0 is an integrated programme of teacher training designed by NCERT.
- SAFAL: SAFAL is Structured Assessment For Analyzing Learning Levels, a competency-based assessment framework for Grades 3, 5 and 8 in CBSE schools
- A website dedicated to Artificial Intelligence
- National Digital Education Architecture (NDEAR) and National Education Technology Forum (NETF)