Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the National Education Policy (NEP) focused on making children skilled according to their talents and choices.
After inaugurating a three-day Akhil Bhartiya Shiksha Samagam on implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) in Varanasi, which is being attended by over 300 academic, administrative and institutional leaders, the Prime Minister said the educational system should not only prepare degree holder youth, but also ensure that all the human resources necessary for the country’s progress were available.
“Our youth should be skilled, confident, practical and calculative, education policy is preparing the ground for this,” he said, adding that there was a need for the institutions to work on the future requirements of the talented young generation. He said the youth was taking initiatives in areas like the space technology, new opportunities were opening up for girls and women. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the country was today one of the fastest growing economies in the world and it was the third largest start-up ecosystem in the world.
