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Union cabinet approves new education policy.
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After the approval of the Cabinet of the Central Government proposed by the Government of India, the new education policy came into force in the country after 36 years.
The cabinet has given the green signal to the New Education Policy 2023. Education policy has been changed after 34 years. The notable things of the new education policy are as follows:
Five Years Fundamental - Minimum Age completed by end of that Academic Class as on March 31.
1. Nursery @ 4 Years
2. Jr KG @ 5 Years
3. Sr KG @ 6 Years
4. Std 1st @ 7 Years
5. Std 2nd @ 8 Years
Three Year Preparatory
6. Std 3rd @ 9 Years
7. Std 4th @10 Years
8. Std 5th @11 Years
Three Years Middle
9. Std 6th @ 12 Years
10.Std 7th @ 13 Years
11.Std 8th @ 14 Years
Four Year Secondary
12.Std 9th @ 15 Years
13.Std SSC @ 16 Years
14.Std FYJC @ 17Years
15.STD SYJC @18 Years
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Special Features:
#Board will be held only in 12th class
MPhil will be closed, college degree of 4 years
■ 10th board over.
◆ Now students up to 5th will be taught in mother tongue, local language and national language only. The rest of the subject, even if it is English, will be taught as a subject.
● Earlier it was mandatory to give 10th board exam, which will not happen now.
★ Examination will be held in semester from 9th to 12th class. Schooling will be taught under the 5+3+3+4 formula.
Whereas college degree will be of 3 and 4 years. That means certificate in the first year of graduation, diploma in the second year, degree in the third year.
◆ 3 years degree is for those students who do not want to take higher education. On the other hand, students pursuing higher education will have to do a 4-year degree. Students doing 4 years degree will be able to do MA in one year.
●MA students will now be able to do PhD directly.
★Students will be able to do other courses in between. The gross enrollment ratio in higher education will be 50 percent by 2035. On the other hand, under the new education policy, if a student wants to do another course in the middle of one course, then he can do the second course after taking a break from the first course for a limited time.
Many reforms have also been done in higher education. Reforms include graded academic, administrative and financial autonomy etc. Apart from this, e-courses will be started in regional languages. Virtual Labs will be developed. A National Educational Scientific Forum (NETF) will be started. Tell that there are 45 thousand colleges in the country.
● There will be uniform rules for all government, private, deemed institutions.

Dharmendra Pradhan
Minister of Education,
Indian government