New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday said that the pillars of the 2020 National Education Policy, which it dubbed as "Nagpur Education Policy", have been shaken, the NTA "discredited" and the education minister who had "forcibly" pushed state governments to implement it has been "compelled" to resign.
The Congress attack came on the sixth anniversary of the adoption of the National Education Policy (NEP) on July 29, 2020.
Party general secretary Jairam Ramesh said the NEP was never discussed in Parliament or cleared by the Central Advisory Board of Education.
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"Today is the sixth anniversary of the Modi Government's adoption of the NEP - Nagpur Education Policy - on July 29th, 2020. The NEP 2020 was never discussed in Parliament and not cleared by the Central Advisory Board of Education," Ramesh said in a post on X.
The opposition party has alleged that the NEP was aimed at saffronising the education system at the behest of the RSS.
"Today the pillars of the NEP have been shaken. The NTA has been thoroughly discredited. The ex-Mantri Pradhan who was its greatest salesman and who forcibly pushed the state governments to implement the NEP has been compelled to resign," he also said.
Referring to 'The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan', he claimed that it has been parked in a Joint Committee of Parliament which is in "deep freeze", having been compelled to cancel its meetings at least twice in the last three weeks after opposition from NDA allies.
"In contrast to the Nagpur Education Policy, the NEP of 1986 under the Rajiv Gandhi Government was discussed in Parliament extensively before being adopted.
"One of its distinguishing achievements was the establishment of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas which have served as engines of socioeconomic mobility since their inception," Ramesh claimed in his post.
