Confronting the students at School Education Conclave, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday talked about changes the National Education Policy (NEP) will bring stating ‘’the new education policy will sow the seeds for starting a new era, and will give new direction to 21st century India. India’s education system had remained unchanged in the past three decades. It was critical to bring new education policy, however proper implementation needs to be ensured’’. 

Here are the highlights of PM Modi speech on National Education Policy 2020: 

• A national curriculum framework will be developed; students should have a new curriculum in 2022 when the nation marks the 75th year of independence 
• We need to understand one scientific thing that language is the medium of education but language is not all education. In whichever language the child can learn easily the same should be the permanent language of learning. The energy of a child is spent more on understanding the language than the subject.
• Can a test or marksheet be a parameter for children’s learning, their mental development? Today the truth is that the mark sheet has become a mental pressure sheet. 
• Our earlier education policy had tied our students very much. The students who take science could not study Arts and Commerce. For those studying Arts and Commerce it is assumed that they are reading history, geography, accounts because they cannot read signs. 
• The NEP has been designed in a similar way to reduce syllabus and focus on fundamental things. A national curriculum framework will be developed to make learning integrated and interdisciplinary, fun based and complete experience.
•  There are many professions that require deep skills but we do not value them. If students see them there will be a kind of emotional connection they will respect them. It may be that many of these children grow up to join such industries and pursue them.
•  We’ll shift from `learn to read’ to ‘read to learn’ through NEP 2020.
•  A few days ago the Ministry of Education had asked Teachers across the country for their suggestion on MyGov about implementing the National Education Policy (NEP). More than 1.5 million suggestions have been received within a week. These suggestions will help in implementing NEP more effectively. 
• The new education policy is also a means of fulfilling new India, new expectations, new requirements.
• Every region of the world has changed in the last three decades. Every system has changed. There is hardly any aspect of our life in these decades which is the same as before. But the path on which society moves towards the future, our education system, is still running on the old pattern. 

The Shiksha Parv is being celebrated from September 8-25. Several webinars and conferences are taking place to discuss the action plan of the NEP 2020.