Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia , who also holds the education portfolio, on Thursday said that the Centre’s new National Educat...
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who also holds the education portfolio, on Thursday said that the Centre’s new National Education Policy was a progressive document that acknowledges the flaws in the present system but provides for a “highly-regulated and poorly-funded” model of learning.
Sisodia added that the new policy has not been able to break free of the old ways of understanding and imparting education. “The other big problem with the policy is that it is either silent or confused about how to achieve the proposed reforms and requirements,” Sisodia said at a press briefing.
The Delhi deputy chief minister also pointed out at the government’s proposal to allocate 6% of the gross domestic product to education was not new. “This has been repeated since 1966 but the government has to bring in a law to ensure that 6% of the GDP goes into education. We cannot achieve this goal on a national level unless there is a law for it.”
Sisodia said that the new education policy proposes free compulsory education from nursery to class 12 but does not say how it will be achieved. “The policy says that the ways to provide free education will be examined in the future,” Sisodia said. “The...
