Challenges and Opportunities in the new education policy: 2020

After a period of 34 years, the Government of India gathered feedback from 2.5 lakh village-level stakeholders to two national parliamentary-level committees. The National Education Policy (NEP) was approved by the Union Cabinet of India on 28 July 2020. 50 months of consultation and workshops. However, the extent to which the recommendations have been incorporated into the policy is unknown. Amid the many application and commentaries about the NEP, this article attempts to analyze the policy from a practitioner's perspective. In particular, we examine “Seven key” cases in the 'School Education' sector from our experience over the last five years of looking at the policy lifecycle through policy, implementation and (lack of) evaluation in Maharashtra