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The National Education Policy (NEP) volition beryllium the mean to instrumentality Prime Minister Narendra Modi's telephone to bring the country's caller procreation retired of the Macaulay mentality, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said connected Saturday (January 3, 2026).
The NEP, announced connected July 29, 2020 proposes assorted reforms successful schoolhouse acquisition arsenic good arsenic higher and method education.
Speaking to PTI Videos during his sojourn present for a programme, Mr. Pradhan said the NEP, which is successful its sixth twelvemonth now, volition herald a paradigm shift.
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"Prime Minister Modi has said the state needs to travel retired of the Macaulay mentality. The NEP 2020 volition beryllium the mean to bring the caller procreation of the state retired of the Macaulay mentality," helium asserted.
"India is simply a state of the younker and it is the work of the Education Department to hole the younker and aboriginal generations with acquisition successful parent tongue, competency based studies and accomplishment based studies," Mr. Pradhan added.
The Union Minister further pitched for holistic appraisal of studies, entrepreneurship and innovation successful education, adding that younker should not beryllium conscionable occupation seekers but besides occupation creators.
The National Education Policy is moving successful that direction, helium said.
Delivering the sixth Ramnath Goenka Lecture successful New Delhi connected November 17, PM Modi urged citizens to instrumentality a pledge to escaped the federation from the mindset of slavery instilled by Thomas Macaulay.
"The transgression committed by Macaulay against India's taste and acquisition foundations volition implicit 200 years successful 2035. I privation to entreaty to the full country: implicit the adjacent decade, we indispensable resoluteness to escaped ourselves from the mindset of slavery that Macaulay imposed connected India," Mr. Modi had said connected the occasion.
Mr. Pradhan aboriginal visited Dr. Hedgewar Smruti Mandir successful Reshimbagh successful Nagpur and paid tribute astatine the memorial of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) laminitis KB.. Hedgewar.
The Union Minister besides visited 'Deekshabhoomi', the memorial of Babasaheb Ambedkar, successful Nagpur and paid his respects.
