Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the main purpose of the National Education Policy is to pull it out of narrow thinking and to integrate it with modern thoughts of the 21st century. Addressing Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Samagam, the PM said, “The main purpose of the national education policy is to pull out the education out of narrow thinking and to integrate it with the modern thoughts of the 21st century. There has never been a death of intelligence in our country, but unfortunately we were given such a system where education means job.”
He said, “We should not prepare degree holder youths only, but our education system should give the country whatever human resources are needed to take it forward. Our teachers and the educational institutions have to lead this resolution.” Modi said slight changes were made in the education policy after independence, but a huge change remained. “The system created by the Britishers was never and cannot be a part of the basic nature of India. For building a new India, creation of new systems and the inclusion of modern systems is equally important. Things which never happened before and which the country had never imagined before are becoming a reality in today’s India,” he said.
