Challenges for New Education Policy 2020

Hello friends, how is it that you all hope that will be good. Friends, a few days ago, I had expressed my opinion about the new education policy to all of you, which you guys appreciated for my efforts. So friends, today I am going to give my opinion about the same new education policy to you. Today I am going to tell you all about the big hurdles for this new education policy, or you can say that the big challenges. Hopefully you will like.

Friends, as we all know that on 30 July 2020, the government had presented the new education policy to the people. It was appreciated by the media channels from television, internet, radio on mobile or those working in the field of educational research. But it is said that wherever you go to do good work, there are ten kinds of challenges. So let's see all those big challenges that will come in front of this new education policy.

 

1. Spending 6% of Indian GDP for new education policy - Friends, a big thing came in the new education policy that the Indian government will spend 6% of its Indian GDP in education sector. But to talk about the statistics, according to the Economic Survey, in the annual session 2018-2019, about 5.6 lakh crore rupees were spent by the government for education, which was only 3% of GDP.Further, the Economic Survey stated that in the field of public expenditure per student and quality education (according to the ratio of student and teacher), India is ranked 62 in the world for elementary education.

The question is, how will the government implement this now in the future because most of the previous governments also had a target of spending 6% of GDP for education. In the past, the closet commission had also suggested to the government in 1964 that the government should spend 6% of its GDP in the education sector. But how will this be possible?

2. National Testing Agency -In this new education policy, there has also been a focus that a National Testing Agency will be formed to conduct entrance examinations in higher educational institutions. From this, it will be noted that all the children who are studying, due to some reason, the marks are low in 12th, then they should not be deprived of studying in good colleges, that is, after implementation of new education policy, admission in any college according to marks of 12 will not be done, children will have to give only one test, on the basis of which they will get admission in college.It is expected that this method will reduce the burden on children on teachers and on universities and colleges and the entire education system. In other words, it will not be seen as a big change because most universities and government and non-government colleges used to conduct private entrance examinations at their level.

If the government wanted, it could have come up with a new innovative method of getting admission, such as studies as well as extracurricular activities such as sports, music, drama, dance and arts, so that students could get better collages based on fields.

3. English as an elective course up to class 8 - As we all are well aware that in the global scenario, the English language has become a universal language in the whole world, in the last 200- 400 years, the place that has been known. Today, small and big countries keep their talk in English language as an international language in a clear manner. Although it is also true that the English language came as a colony in our country, but many countries of the world such as China have added English language to their curriculum today.

As an example, even today, if any bill is passed in Parliament, voting is done in Yes and No. So will English be an optional language to be a good decision? And as a new education policy, teaching in the mother tongue has been kept as an optional idea, will the schools follow the government?

The biggest question comes out here is that when the child learns English in class 6 after class 5, will he be able to easily adopt that language because the time of learning of the children is more early in the early stage. And whether those private schools which have been operating in English medium since the beginning, will be able to convince the children to study in their mother tongue. If not, it will become a very big difference between the mother tongue and those who read in English and this difference will increase over time. When it comes to employment, then there will be a big difference.

4. Multi-discipline - In the new education policy, the government had decided to multi-discipline all higher education institutions in the future, which was considered a big masterstroke. However, there are many topics that need to be considered separately such as Women's Studies or Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Studies of Discrimination and Exclusion, Environmental Studies and Development Studies. There has been a lot of change in this subject in the last three to four decades.

5. Teacher training - Friends, as we all know that new education policy has come this year after last 34 years and many changes have been made in it. But are teachers ready for these changes? Is the government ready to improve the teacher student ratio. There is no focus on a quality teacher in this policy. Where will the funding for teachers trainings come from? How will the training infrastructure be? Which institute will evaluate those teachers?

6. Inclusive education - Under the new education policy, the Government of India will encourage those capable children to study further, Students will be related to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes. The National Scholarship Portal will also be extended to track the record of the children who have been allocated scholarships. But what will happen to those children who belong to the lower income general category?

7. Implementation - Friends, as we all know that this new policy has many benefits, although there are some lows, some are also Challenges, but this education policy will be considered successful only if it is implemented properly, otherwise it will be not provide any benefit.  The biggest challenge for the government will be how to implement it better.