National Education Policy 2020: Focus on Multidisciplinary and Research

Abstract

After thirty-four years' gap since 1986, new National Education Policy 2020 came into force with profound and comprehensive ideas to transform India's worn-out educational system. This policy comes with a lot of aspirations for India's development and enrichment in various fields. The policy focuses on to instill intellectual, moral, spiritual cultural, social and physical facets among the students. However, the main focus of the policy is on the implementation of multidisciplinary approaches and research inclinations in education system o f India for the holistic development ofthe students.

Every policy tries to be perfect and aims to bring out best outcomes but the problem does not lie with the draft ofthe policy, the problem occurs due to its wrong and half-hearted implementation. Therefore, the NEP 2020 report contains a last chapter, entitled as Making it Happen, advising on how to implement the policy successfully. This chapter expresses the need of strengthening CentralAdvisory Board ofEducation and financing impeccably. The poUcy states that the previous policies on education concentrated mainly on the issues of access and equity. The NEP 1986 which was later modified in 1992 is appropriately incorporated in the present NEP 2020 with an inclusion of Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009. This report also tries to incorporate all the indispensable fundamental values envisaged by the constitution of India. This paper intends to throw light on the new educational policy's focus on the need of multidisciplinary approaches and estabUshment of qualitative research culture for the holistic development and enrichment of Indian students and consequently for the progress of India in every areas that define nation's distinction.