National Education Ministers’ Conference to be held in Gujarat on June 1, 2

NEW DELHI: A National Education Ministers’ Conference will be held in Gujarat tomorrow, June 1 and June 2. Education Ministers of states and Union Territories across the country will be participating in the conference.

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan along with Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and Electronics and Information Technology; Annapurna Devi, MoS for Education; Subhash Sarkar, MoS for Education and senior officials of Ministry of Education will participate in the meeting.

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The conference is expected to witness deliberations on strengthening the education ecosystem in the country with focus on implementation of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, skilling in schools and digital initiatives such as National Digital Education Architecture (NDEAR), National Educational Technology Forum (NETF), etc.

The Ministers will also be visiting Vidya Samiksha Kendra (VSK), Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics (BISAG), National Forensic Science University (NFSU) and International Automobile Centre of Excellence (iACE) tomorrow.

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Recently, the Union education minister while attending the roundtable on implementing NEP 2020 at Symbiosis International University at Pune said that the policy is a knowledge document of the 21st century. According to him, the objective of the policy is to promote the development of people and to make education accessible.