New Delhi, Jul 29 (UNI) Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union Cabinet for approving the National Education Policy 2020, aimed at "a transformative restructuring of Education in India encompassing every stage of learning from early education to higher education with greater emphasis on technology and digitisation."
Ms Irani, who as former Human Resource Development Minister, had set the ball rolling for overhaul of the education policy, said NEP2020 was outcome of the most exhaustive consultations carried out by the GOI under Mr Modi's leadership.
'Honoured to be part of the extensive exercise initiated in 2015 and thankful to (her successors) Prakash Javdekar and Dr R Pokhriyal for supplementing the efforts of the HRD Ministry,' she said.