Gujarat Should be the First State to Implement New Education Policy 2020: CM Vijay Rupani

Gujarat Chief Minister, Vijay Rupani on Saturday announced that his government aims to become the first to implement the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The state government will soon form a task force to create a road map for the same.

CM Rupani was speaking at an event organised in Gandhinagar to felicitate 44 teachers on the occasion of the Teachers’ Day.

“The new NEP has been translated into Gujarati, and a task force is being formed to make a road map for Gujarat soon,” the chief minister said.

The state government in line with this road map will make drastic changes in education, right from primary to secondary and higher education, from KG to PG (kindergarten to post-graduation)

On the basis of this road map, the state will make drastic changes in education, right from primary to secondary and higher education, from KG to PG (kindergarten to post-graduation), he said.

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“Gujarat should become the first state to implement the education policy. We should move ahead fast to become a role model for the creation of India of the future,” Rupani said to the gathering.

During the gathering, governor Acharya Devvrat, as well as the cabinet and state ministers of education, Bhupendrasinh Chudasama and Vibhavari Dave, and senior officials from the education department, were present at the function.

“In the age of industrialisation when people care only about themselves and their careers, it is teachers who, despite being paid low salaries, create a new generation and prepare people to take care of India of the future,” he said. 

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