National Education Policy: PM calls for max 'flexibility' in implementation

Modi said the idea behind the concept of graded autonomy is to encourage healthy competition among colleges and universities and to reward the performers

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that “maximum flexibility” has to be shown in implementing the new National Education Policy (NEP) and all questions about it have to be addressed, as he asserted that it is not a government's but the country's education policy.

Addressing the ‘Governors’ Conference on the Role of NEP in Transforming Higher Education’, Modi said it is natural for stakeholders to have questions about the policy and “we are all working to address all these questions”.

The view of every stakeholder is being heard with an open mind, he said, adding that most of the questions about