Education Minister Launches Academic Calendar

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The Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education has launched a booklet on one-year achievements of NEP implementation yesterday to commemorate one year of implementation of National Policy on Education (NEP 2020).

Education Mean Not Submission Of Degrees

During the launch, the Education-Minister said – National Education Policy (NEP) is a philosophical document, not about data or numbers. Education is not about collecting degrees but building character and national through building knowledge. This is our understanding of the Indian knowledge system.

In Addition To The Booklet, Include:

    • 1) Virtual School of NIOS for the students of class 9-12 to provide them advanced digital learning platform through Virtual Live Classroom and Virtual Lab.
    • 2) NCERT Alternative Academic Calendar 2025-26 containing week-wise planning of interesting and challenging activities with reference to learning outcomes, topics and chapters taken from the syllabus or textbook.
    • 3) NIPUN Bharat FLN Tools and Resources on Diksha, which is a separate workspace for FLN resources developed under DIKSHA to assist and advise States/UTs and teachers to implement NIPUN India.

Booklet has Launched Virtually

This booklet has actually been released by the Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Some major NEP 2020 initiatives have also been launched. The program was attended by senior officers of the department and heads of autonomous institutions and senior officials of the school education department of all the states and union territories.

Development Of Priya Booklet:
‘PRIYA’ – Accessibility booklet developed by NCERT in collaboration with Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities to understand the concept and importance of access in children from their early years as a step towards inclusive education.

NEP 2020 On A Mission Mode

As the National Policy on Education 2020 envisions a significant change in the entire education system at all levels, the Department of School Education and Literacy has implemented NEP 2020 on a mission mode and designed a flexible, interactive, indicative and inclusive NEP implementation. has done as “Meaningful plan”.

Good Policies Have Been Hidden For 75 Years:
In the last 75 years many have been hiding in files without good policies being implemented. But we are presenting a report card of sorts for the NEP – which we have done in the last one year – Mr Pradhan said.

Department Has Made 62 Major Achievements

The department has achieved 62 major milestones in this one year, which will transform the school education sector. This includes:

    1. Nipun Bharat Mission on Basic Literacy and Numeracy,
    2. Vidya Pravesh- three months school preparation module,
    3. Aligning the Samagra Shiksha Yojana with NEP 2020,
    4. Capacity building of secondary teachers under Nishtha,
    5. Blue Print of National Digital Education Architecture (NDEAR),
    6. Assessment correction, digital material on initiation, etc.