India: PM Chairs Meet On National Education Policy, Pushes For Hybrid Learning

NEW DELHI, 08 May 2022, (TON): Pushing for the adoption of technology in delivering formal education, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said “a hybrid system of online and offline learning should be developed to avoid overexposure to technology in school-going children.”

While chairing a high-level meeting to review the progress in the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.

He said “in the two years since its launch, the new policy has seen many initiatives being unrolled to achieve the objectives of access, equity, inclusivity, and quality, as laid down under the policy.”

The PM's office said in a release that NEP has given a big push to online learning with higher education institutions being allowed to run full-fledged online courses and the permissible limit of online content being raised to 40%.

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