New Delhi: National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020) will turn India into a global knowledge superpower, Union Education and Skill Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said via video conferencing on the 61st Foundation Day of NCERT on Wednesday.
Ministers of State of Education, Subhash Sarkar and Dr Raj Kumar Ranjan Singh and senior officials of the Ministry and NCERT were present on the occasion.
Addressing the participants, Pradhan congratulated the NCERT on this occasion and appreciated NCERT’s efforts in improving the quality of education. Recognising NCERT’s milestones in its journey from bringing out the National Curriculum Frameworks for school education to the Alternative Academic Calendar to facilitate learning during the pandemic, he said that NCERT should gear up for bringing in a massive transformation in education as envisaged in the NEP 2020.
Pradhan also said that NEP 2020 gives special attention to sports-integrated learnings for students to adopt fitness as a lifelong attitude.
The programme was attended online by all the faculty members, staff and other invitees of all the constituents of NCERT through the official YouTube channel. The entire programme was conducted with COVID appropriate protocol in place.
The publication of NCERT titled ‘Dictionary of Sociology’ in three languages: English, Hindi and Urdu, explaining the terms in Sociology was formally released by the dignitaries on the dais.
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