Withdrawal of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 was one among the many demands put forth at a two-day national council meeting of the School Teachers’ Federation of India (STFI) that began here on Wednesday.
The STFI is a national federation of school teachers in the country. An executive meeting held as part of the event called for nationwide protests to press for the withdrawal of the NEP, dumping of the National Pension Scheme, and end to “communalisation” of the education sector.
It expressed protest against the textbook deletions effected by the NCERT terming it denial of history and said there was a bid to communalise textbooks.