According to the National Education Policy approved by the Union Cabinet in July 2020, every child at the middle stage of education would be required to learn at least one vocation and provided experience to several as available and decides at local level by involving community.
The exposure to various crafts like carpentry, electric gadgetry, metal work, gardening, pottery, artists, electrical gadgets, etc. could be the options. It has been visioned that by 2025, at least 50% of learners through the school system and higher education system would be subjected to vocational education.
Furthermore, during an academic session, 10-day bag-less period, holidays-exposures and internships with local vocational skill experts will be the mechanisms along will be availability of on-line vocational courses in place.
Moreover, every, state or district will be assisted to set-up “Bal Bhavans” as a special daytime boarding institutions to ensure children's participation in art-, career- and play- related activities.
Many educators see this as a situation in which two kinds of school systems will be formed. The government system will be seen as the washed down system for education of rural and deprived groups while the education in the private and corporate sector as the sought-after system for the advantaged groups with stress on academic learning under general education up to grade 12.
Educationist and activist, Dr. Anil Sadgopal, views that the NEP-2020 will enhance the pace of privatization and corporatization of education in India to turn education into a profit-driven industry involving politicians, businessmen, private-players and corporate houses.
I express the emergent scenario in the following limerick.
LIMERICK
There is nothing neither national nor public
In Education Policy of 2020 of Indian Republic
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Education has become a commodity for sale
For the private and the corporate without fail
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General education will stop at grade six automatic
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