Karnataka Primary & Secondary Education Minister B.C Nagesh stated that the government will implement the National Education Policy (NEP) for the pre-primary level in the current academic year. The state government has submitted 26 position papers to the union education ministry about implementing NEP in school education. The minister added that the NEP 2020 implementation will be in a phased manner and in the first phase, it will be implemented at anganwadis across the state. The NEP will be extended to primary and secondary education in the next phase.
The officials from the education department stated that anganwadis are run by the department of women and child welfare, while the department of primary and secondary education will frame the curriculum as per NEP.
Karnataka is the first state in the country to implement the NEP at the higher education level and the first batch of NEP students in undergraduate courses took their semester examinations recently. He further added that the government has taken up the construction of 7,000 classrooms at government schools across the state and was also repairing dilapidated buildings on a priority basis under the NEP 2020 initiative.
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