As the new Congress-led government took charge in the State in May 2023, the education sector, which had been a hub of controversies during the previous BJP regime, saw many reversals.
NEP-2020 scrapped
The incumbent Congress government announced that it would scrap the National Education Policy (NEP) - 2020, a policy framed by the BJP-led Union government and the party’s State government took pride in claiming they were the first State to implement it. However, NEP - 2020 has been controversial since its inception.