Andhra education minister claims: CM’s views reflected in National Education Policy 2021 – education

Affirming that the National Education Policy (NEP) 2021 has carried lots of the suggestions made by the State Authorities, Andhra Pradesh Education Minister Adimulapu Suresh claimed that Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has been forward of instances to visualise a stage taking part in discipline to all college students and termed the information revealed in a piece of press as opinionated.

“The Chief Minister wished education to be accessible, reasonably priced, have fairness, high quality and accountability and all these mirror in the NEP 2021. He has been advocating that poverty shouldn’t be a barrier to increased education and 12 .1 of the Policy says that nobody must be disadvantaged of education,” mentioned Suresh.

Minister Suresh mentioned that “Amma Vodi” scheme has been launched incentivising moms to ship their youngsters to highschool and the NEP in 6.four talks about incentivising dad and mom by money transfers to carry down the dropout price.

“Our Authorities has introduced in laws to observe and regulate education incorporate education establishments and the NEP clearly states that education just isn’t a industrial exercise,” mentioned Suresh.

Lambasting the earlier TDP authorities, Suresh mentioned, “The sooner authorities has behaved like a model ambassador to company education and went about closing down authorities colleges, whereas our authorities has revived them and underneath ‘Nadu Nedu’ scheme, our authorities is bringing in the infrastructure and atmosphere. The State has earmarked Rs 12,000 crores for instructional establishments.”

The minister continued saying that the Chief Minister was the primary to say that the Diploma course must be of 4 years and introduced the pre-major 1 and pre-major 2 which was echoed in the brand new coverage, which additionally spoke about bilingual strategy, he added.

The nomenclature of the Ministry of Human Sources Improvement was modified to the Ministry of Education by this authorities whereas the earlier authorities dilly-dallied of its total time period.

We’ve got completely mentioned the NEP 2021 and can apprise the Chief Minister concerning the end result, he mentioned including that there was a assessment on the standard enchancment in the education system. Digitalization of education was additionally a function of our coverage which discovered its place in the brand new coverage.