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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicNational Education Policy

Topic: National Education Policy

India’s draft education policy isn’t a conservative conspiracy. But it may never take off

In the last five years, Narendra Modi government has walked in the opposite direction to the one recommended in this policy document.

Controversial 3-language formula includes flexibility of choice, says Pokhriyal

Education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal told the Lok Sabha that the National Education Policy (NEP) does not discriminate against or impose any specific language.

Ayesha Siddiqa on Pakistan’s defence budget cut, Y.V. Reddy on RBI’s independence

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Boria Majumdar says Ind-Pak matches ‘one-sided’, civil service appointments ‘diluted’- Satyananda Mishra

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Modi govt’s new education policy draft wants law taught in English & local languages

The panel that drafted the New Education Policy suggested that legal education must be bilingual to help speed up legal transactions in lower courts.

Rajmohan Gandhi on the way forward in Kashmir & Sanjaya Baru’s advice to Nirmala Sitharaman

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Indian children are schooling, not learning. Modi govt must fix it with national edu policy

Easy to measure metrics, ‘syllabus completion’ & ‘pass percentages’ have held classrooms hostage. Education policy has the power to change it.

Modi govt plan to make Hindi compulsory averted. But larger message should worry south

Since coming to power in 2014, the BJP and its supporters have systematically embarked on their wanton campaign to privilege uniformity over unity.

Anurag Behar gives a ‘teaser’ of new education policy & Ashwani Lohani on Air India’s downfall

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Draft National Education Policy was not Hindi-chauvinist & Modi govt shouldn’t have caved in

Far from a conspiracy to impose Hindi, the draft national education policy is actually a step forward in policy thinking on language and education.

On Camera

Chinese chatter on Delhi-Shanghai flight — ‘normalisation’ needs more than linking the skies

Chinese commentators consistently portray India as the driver of rapprochement. New Delhi’s outreach is framed as a pragmatic, reluctant choice shaped by multiple pressures.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.