Foreign Countries Want to Implement India's NEP: Education Minister Pokhriyal
News 18Topmost institutes as well as various countries have hailed India’s National Education Policy 2020 as the world’s ”biggest reform” and shown interest in implementing it, said Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ”Nishank” on Saturday. The minister, who was addressing the 97th annual convocation of Delhi University, said the new education policy that has been brought into place after ”much deliberation” will see India ”reform, perform and transform”. Like how it worked tirelessly in implementing ”digital education”, transformed homes into schools and didn’t let the year go waste for India’s 33 crore students — more than the total population of the USA. To give an idea of how herculean the task was, the minister even shared the data on the size of Indian education system: ”1,000 universities”, ”50,000 degree colleges”, ”15 lakh schools” and ”1.10 crore teachers”.