PM Narendra Modi on NEP: Our work has just begun, policy has to be implemented equally effectively

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday once again underlined the fact that work on National Education Policy has just begun and it is really important to ensure that it is implemented equally effectively. The statement came when PM Modi was addressing a conclave through video call on Friday.  

“Our work has just begun; National Education Policy has to be implemented equally effectively,” the prime minister said, while adding that MyGov portal received more than 15 lakh suggestions from teachers on NEP implementation within a week of seeking their views. 

“NEP focuses a lot on children, stresses on learning based on fun, discovery and activities,” PM Modi said.  

He added that engage, explore, experience, express and excel should be our mantra of new age learning for children. PM Modi said that so far marks and marksheet dominated learning-based education in our country but the NEP aims to change that.  

Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday recalled two important events that mark this day for India -- the birth anniversary of Acharya Vinoba Bhave and Swami Vivekananda's famous address in Chicago -- and said both great men have a lot to teach the entire humanity. 

In his tweets, Modi also noted that the world remembers 9/11 (September 11) for the dastardly terror attack on this day in the USA and said if humans had walked on the path of Bhave's slogan of 'Jai Jagat' and Vivekananda's nineteenth century message of universal brotherhood, the destruction that followed would not have occurred. 

"Today, on 11th September we in India mark two important milestones.? The Jayanti of Acharya Vinoba Bhave. The day Swami Vivekananda delivered his outstanding address in Chicago. These great men have a lot to teach the entire humanity," Modi said. 

Paying tribute to Bhave on his 125th birth anniversary, the prime minister said, "In 1918 Mahatma Gandhi wrote about Bhave that 'I do not know in what terms to praise you. Your love and your character fascinate me and so also your self-examination. I am not fit to measure your worth'."