National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is the policy made by Education ministry under Government of India to ramp up and elevate the education system of the country.

Key points in NEP 2020 are:

• The Union Cabinet renamed the HRD Ministry as Education Ministry.
• There would be a single regulator for all higher education institutions and MPhil would be discontinued.
• All institutions of higher education, except legal and medical schools, shall be regulated by a single regulator.
• Board exams in schools will be low stakes and will assess real student knowledge rather than “rote learning method”.
• The medium of instruction up to Class 5 will be in the home language, mother tongue, or regional language.
• There will be the integration of vocational education from Class 6 onwards and the school curriculum will also be reduced to core principles. 
• Report cards will be based on a comprehensive report on skills and strengths, rather than simply marks and statements.
• General principles will apply to public and private higher education institutions.
• This will also regulate fees paid to academic institutions.
• Common entrance exams will be held for admission to universities and higher education institutions.
• The ministry announced that comprehensive and multidisciplinary education would be given in terms of the flexibility of subjects.
• There will be graded academic, administrative and financial autonomy of institutions.
• The development of e-courses in 8 regional languages; the development of virtual labs and the establishment of a National Educational Technology Forum (NETF) will take place.
• Our nation comprises over 45,000 affiliated colleges. Under graded autonomy, the college will have academic, administrative and financial autonomy dependent on the level of their accreditation.
• The national education policy will concentrate on basic literacy and numeracy.
• Large improvements in the pedagogical framework of the curriculum have been confirmed, with no rigid distinction between streams; all separations between vocational and academic and curriculum and extracurricular will also be eliminated.