NEW DELHI: Karnataka became the first state in the country to implement the National Education Policy 2020 with Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan and CM Basavaraj Bommai virtually launching the university and college admission module as per the new policy on Monday.
Pradhan said the state has set an ideal example to other states in implementation of the NEP-2020 and has become a laboratory in implementation of the policy. To mark the occasion, Bommai announced that a new digitalisation and research and development policy focusing on students will be rolled out and a primary and secondary education council will be established with the aim of transforming and empowering the knowledge landscape of Karnataka.
Saying these programs will be given due preference in the coming budget amidst constraints, he advised to introduce career guidance and personality development in the secondary education level. "If implemented successfully, the policy would free the education system from vertical silos, compartmentalisation and closed jacket structure of teaching-learning process," he said. He also announced tablet PCs will be given this year for those joining first year degree courses.
Higher education minister CN Ashwatha Narayana said, "NEP will break the barriers and bring together science-arts-humanities, curricular-extra-curricular, theoretical knowledge-skill development etc."
