Vivek's Commentary

Finally, after 34 years, India got a new national education policy. The 484 pages long draft reduced to 66 pages long educational policy. It's always good to have a policy, have a vision regarding education. Let's hope that this vision will be reflected in fiscal policies and budgetary allocation.  The National Education Policy 2020 does include the points discussed in the World Development Report 2018 (Learning to realize education’s promise  https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2018  ). The students are attending the school but not "learning". The world development report blames the learning crisis for high inequality, poor outcomes, and political inefficiency. The report suggests school management, unkilled teacher, unprepared learners as well as school inputs are the reasons behind the learning crisis where key players like political players don't give attention to the students learning.  The WDR suggests that countries should work on three parts: Asses