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Vol. 06, Issue 07,July 2021 IMPACT FACTOR: 7.98 (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL) 1 NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY: POLICY INITIATIVES

Dr. Mona Jaiswal

Lecturer, Chemistry, Govt. Women’s Polytechnic College Jabalpur, M.P Dr. Pratima Upadhyay

Lecturer (Modern Office Management) Govt. Women’s Polytechnic College Jabalpur, M.P

Abstract- Since autonomy, India has seen gigantic development and extension of schooling at all levels which owes to the powerful necessities of its kin just as the requests of quick globalization. Nonetheless a few differences actually exist in the field of training which prevents the general advancement. There is helpless portrayal of individuals from minority networks, especially Muslims, the SCs, the STs, and ladies at the instructive front. The Government of India has been ceaselessly endeavoring towards wiping out these inconsistencies, and to elevate openness to an interest in schooling. Significant drives are being taken to advance comprehensiveness at all degrees of schooling and work on instructive quality. The definition of the New National Policy on Education is perhaps the most encouraging drives taken by the current government to further develop the norm of training in the country. The current article illuminates certain issues and concerns identified with schooling and it advances certain proposals which should be thought of while conceiving the New National Policy on Education.

Keywords: Issues and Disparities in Education.

1 INTRODUCTION

India has consistently laid extraordinary significance to schoolingS. From the hour of autonomy, the extension and headway of instruction has been a need of India's improvement plan. A few commissions and strategies have been shaped every once in a while to take drives needed to build availability to instruction, support further investment, and work on instructive quality. One of the conspicuous approaches on schooling is the National Policy on Education which was outlined in 1986 and changed in 1992. The strategy imagined a majority rule arrangement of training which infers that "up to a given level, all understudies, independent of station, belief, area or sex, approach instruction of a similar quality"

(NPE, 1986).

Since its plan, the National Policy on Education has zeroed in on refining the nature of schooling at all stages, instilling good and friendly qualities, logical and mechanical progression, and to connect instruction with individuals' life. Fostering a feeling of shared

characteristic among individuals, advancing public advancement, and bracing public honesty have been the foundations of the National Policy on Education.

1.1 Need of the Revised Policy on Education

Fast improvements have happened in the political, social and financial circles at public and worldwide level since the verbalization of the National Policy on Education (1986/92).These improvements require a w hole some and proactive schooling framework. Keeping this in see, the current Government of India has stepped up and advanced an overhauled National Policy on Education to oblige the persistently changing requests of individuals with respect to nature of training, innovative work, making youngsters skilful to bring labor up in academic and modern undertakings, and making India an information society.

Considering the powerful idea of the necessities and prerequisites of the

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instruction and the schooling strategies need to advance consistently. Considering changing public advancement objectives and cultural requirements, the points, destinations, content and interaction of training should be resuscitated by using the accessible assets, guaranteeing that the advantages of progress reach to every layers of the general public. The New National Policy on Education which conceives the recovery of the current instruction framework would end up being a light carrier toward this path.

The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India plainly specifies in its manual for the forthcoming New Education Policy that, "the general image of schooling advancement in the nation is blended and there are many enduring concerns and difficulties identifying with admittance to and investment in training, nature of the instruction granted, value in schooling, framework proficiency, administration and the executives, innovative work, and financial obligation to instruction improvement" (MHRD). The current article centers around difficulties identified with admittance to and interest in schooling, quality concerns, and inconsistencies in instruction.

Access and Participation: India shows a crippling image of non-literates and dropouts. In 2011, India had 282.6 million non-literates among populace matured 7, which was the biggest populace of non-literates on the planet, with the adolescent proficiency rate (15- 24 years) of 86.1 percent and grown-up education rate (15 years or more) being 69.3 percent (MHRD Report, 2014).

However achievement has been accomplished in upgrading enrolment rates at essential level, a significant test before the public authority is to improve maintenance in upper essential and optional schooling. The need is to zero in the objective of instruction on dropout counteraction just as secondary school

fulfillment, and give openness to postsecondary enrolment choices.

Quality Concerns: Educational quality at all levels has gotten a big deal worry as the public authority is as yet attempting to give training of a practically identical quality to upgrade learning results.

Inappropriate educational program, undeveloped educators and incapable instructional method are fundamentally debasing the nature of training. The debasement propels from pre-school training to essential and upper essential stage, which gushes out over to auxiliary stage and school/college level. The inferior quality of instruction is bringing about helpless results like absence of school status among understudies, absence of learning capabilities, separation in learning, and low degrees of scholastic execution. Variables adding to unsuitable nature of instruction incorporate privatization of schooling bringing about mushrooming of unsatisfactory schools, schools and colleges; inclination of delinquency among understudies and instructors; insufficient preparing of showing staffs; helpless utilization of data and correspondence advances in showing learning measure;

improper management of execution of understudies and educators, and so forth Incongruities in Education: The proficiency rate in India has increased significantly in the course of the last decade, being 74.04 percent in 2011compared to 65 percent in 2001, with female and male proficiency levels as 65.46 percent and 80 percent separately.

Albeit the general education rate is expanding altogether throughout the long term, the circumstance is as yet not sufficient. India spends just 3.7 percent of its GDP on training, rather than a base 6 percent (Human Development Reports, 2016). The inadmissible image of instructive advancement in the nation owes to the more extensive hole that exists between the denied segments and

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school enrolment, with colossal differences existing among different gatherings of people and across regions, religions, and sexual orientation.

2 ISSUES RELATED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

The degree of advanced education is declared by the size of advanced education framework in a country. The size of advanced education framework relies for the most part upon three elements, in particular, number of instructive organizations colleges and universities, number of educators and number of understudies (UGC Report, 2008).

From the hour of freedom till present, the advanced education framework in India has seen gigantic expansion in its institutional limit. There were 666 Universities (45 Central, 129 Deemed, 313 State, 175 State Private and 4 Institutions under Special State Legislature Act) and 39671 Colleges during the year 2013-14, in this way showing an increment of 16% in the quantity of Universities and 11.63 percent expansion in Colleges during the second year of XII arrangement contrasted with the toward the finish of XI arrangement (UGC Annual Report, 2013-14). During the scholarly year 2013-14, there was an increment of 6.56 percent in understudy enrolment at advanced education level.

The enrolment of understudies was the most elevated in the territory of Uttar Pradesh followed by Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, etc (UGC Annual Report, 2013-14). One of the exceptional accomplishments at advanced education level since autonomy is the development in enrolment of ladies. The enrolment of ladies has reached up to a degree of 44.40 percent in the scholastic year 2013-2014, which was under 10% of the absolute enrolment at the hour of Independence.

The XII Plan focuses to accomplish 30%

Gross Enrolment Ratio, which requests

further endeavors as far as setting up of more number of advanced education establishments just as expanding their admission limit with regards to each course.

2.1 Education of Minorities and Girls/Women

The proficiency pace of our nation according to 2011Census (populace under 7 years old barred) is discovered to be 73.0 percent, with 80.9 percent and 64.6 percent education rate for male and female individually (MHRD Report, 2014).

As far as religion, Hindus have a higher education rate than individuals of minority religions like Muslims and barely any different religions. The proficiency rate decreases from Jains to Christians, trailed by Buddhists.

For advancing training among Muslims, different minority schooling plans have been carried out by the Government. To accomplish the objective of universalisation of rudimentary instruction, endeavors have been designated to give infrastructural offices to schools; important homeroom types of gear, enlistment of productive instructors, and setting up of new schools in Minority Concent apportion Districts (MCD)/Areas.

Endeavors are likewise made to work on the nature of schooling in Madarsas, work with infrastructural improvement in Minority Institutions, advancing ladies enrolment in advanced education by setting up of inns for young ladies and ladies, and foundation of Polytechnics and Model Degree Colleges in the Minority Concentration Districts.

3 POLICY INITIATIVES AND CONCERNS The New National Policy on Education vows to endeavor hard to defeat the variations in training as to minorities and young lady instruction. With the end goal of Policy Consultation, MHRD, Government of India has advanced in its report, certain topics to acquire productive ideas for working on the

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at all levels, which are as per the following-

 "Enabling Inclusive Education- training of SCs, STs, Girls, Minorities and youngsters with extraordinary requirements.

 Accelerating country proficiency with exceptional accentuation on Women, SCs, STs and Minorities through Adult Education and National Open Schooling Systems.

 New information, instructional methods and approaches for educating of Science, Maths and Innovation in School Education to further develop learning results of understudies". To give guidance to the previously mentioned subjects, the record ready by the MHRD likewise gives certain approach drives which will be executed through the New National Policy on Education. These are as per the following-

 "Issues of sex, social, social and local incongruities, with an accentuation on variety, will be appropriately tended to in the educational plan and its exchange.

Educational program will cover the issues of social equity and agreement and lawful measures to stay away from social segregation.

4 CONCLUSION

India's gigantic monetary and specialized improvement requires a significant change in endeavors to extend and upgrade the instruction framework contemplating the accomplishments of the past strategies and commissions and advance quality and comprehensiveness in training at alllevels. It is profoundly expected that the New National Policy on Education would end up being an establishment stone in achieving this vision.

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2. Distribution of Population by Religions, Drop- in-Article: Census of India 2011.

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Distribution_by_Religion.pdf. Gotten to September, 2016.

3. Educational Statistics at a Glance.

Department of Planning, Monitoring and Statistics, Ministry Of Human Resource Development, Government of India, New Delhi. (2014).

http://mhrd.gov.in/destinations/upload_files /mhrd/records/insights/EAG2014_0.pdf.

Gotten to September, 2016.