Madhav Chavan, CEO of Pratham, provides a perspective on the provisions of the draft National Education Policy (NEP).
Released by the new Modi government, the policy squarely confronts the learning crisis in the country. Children going through school can hardly read and write and know little maths. The rot goes all the way to higher education with graduates being unemployable.
The draft policy emphasises early childhood education as a solution. It puts anganwadis in schools and proposes that all primary schools have a pre-primary section. At higher levels it recommends vocational education be. . .
