Moreover, the meals find mention in the section on “foundational literacy” only and the Draft’s suggestion of extending it all the way to Class 12 has, apparently, been dropped. It has, however, dropped the suggested menu of “some milk and a banana”. Mid-day meals: The final draft has retained the May draft’s emphasis on extending the Mid-Day Meal Scheme to also include breakfast. The NCERT has already checked that box, having submitted its ECCE framework in August. Its primary direction was to have the National Council of Educational Research and Training, the apex advisory body on curriculum, develop a “curricular and pedagogical framework” for this. Given below are some of the most significant measures it recommends for school education.Įarly Childhood Care and Education: The policy recommends government investment in the care and education of children under six years of age. The NEP - a draft till it is cleared by the Union Cabinet and Parliament - will likely be tabled in the winter session. This should somewhat allay the fears of centralisation that states have expressed but the new document appears to have also introduced a national-level body to regulate all the existing school boards, including the public state boards.
The Rashtriya Shiksha Aayog (National Education Commission) will still replace the Central Advisory Body on Education but, as many publications have already reported, the Education Minister will chair it instead of the Prime Minister. This version is far more restrained, mentioning volunteer teachers only for foundational literacy. The May version had dwelt at length on the possibility of introducing still more untrained youths to public schools. The rather radical concept of “modular board examinations” – an exam could be taken any time over Classes 9-12 – has given way to the more sedate plan of allowing students two tries. The new version says nothing about “loosening the input restrictions” in the Act, or the minimum required infrastructure for a school, but vaguely promises a review. Its stand on mid-day meals and further amendments to the Act, has similarly weakened. The new document is far less emphatic about the extension of the RTE Act to cover both early childhood care and education (from age three) and secondary education till Class 12, than its first iteration. All the detailed descriptions of puzzles, classroom activities and designs of certificates have been edited out. It also has fewer prescriptions for the various agencies, regulators and branches of government involved. NEW DELHI: Nearly five months after the Draft New Education Policy was made public for comments, the final version is ready.Īt 55 pages, the final draft of the National Education Policy 2019 is a pared-down version of the May-2019 one that ran to over 480 pages.
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