Implementation of the new National Education Policy 2020: An assessment

The first full year after the release of the new National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 on 29 July 2020 has been a mixed bag with respect to implementation efforts by the Central and State governments and their autonomous agencies. The first step in the implementation, renaming the erstwhile Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) as the Ministry of Education (MOE) as suggested by the NEP, was immediate, given that the Union Cabinet approved this change at the same time as the policy itself. However, the progress since then has been chequered.