IinvenTiv 2024 Inauguration: Schooling Minister Emphasizes Nationwide Acceptance of NEP 2020 |

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IinvenTiv 2024 Inauguration: Education Minister Emphasizes Nationwide Acceptance of NEP 2020 |

HYDERABAD: On Friday, Union Schooling Minister Dharmendra Pradhan acknowledged that almost all states are actively incorporating the Nationwide Schooling Coverage 2020. He emphasised that even states showing hesitant are, actually, embracing the coverage, albeit using totally different terminology.
“I’m blissful. Allow them to be glad with utilizing totally different terminology.However, with full duty I can say nearly all states are implementing Nationwide Schooling Coverage 2020 which is a really philosophical and historic doc,” he instructed reporters when requested concerning the current standing of NEP 2020 and the variety of states implementing it.
He was talking at IIT-Hyderabad after inaugurating IInvenTiv 2024, described because the nation’s largest R&D Innovation Honest from Greater Schooling Establishments.
“Happy to inaugurate #IinvenTiv2024 at IIT Hyderabad. Glad that within the second version, we’ve enlarged the scope of this innovation showcase and have taken this occasion past IITs,” Pradhan stated.
“With such in depth participation from HEIs and trade, #IinvenTiv is poised to turn out to be an iconic model within the expertise, innovation and entrepreneurship sector,” he stated. Requested concerning the authorities’s plans to increase the size and high quality of R&D of IITs and different premier establishments to tier-2 and tier-3 cities and establishments there, Pradhan stated, “it’s a fallacious notion (that) IITs are (the) solely high quality establishments”.
Whereas IITians are doing wonders within the international sphere, he stated he might cite 100 examples of non-IITians within the nation doing a terrific job.
The ‘IInvenTiv’ is a degree enjoying discipline, he stated.
Talking on the inauguration ceremony of the occasion earlier, Pradhan stated historical India was the land of improvements, and right now, fashionable India, appearing as ‘Vishwa Mitra’, is leveraging expertise to succeed in new heights.
Observing that the nation is decided to attain the purpose of ‘Viksit Bharat’ (developed India) by 2047, he stated primacy is being given to analysis, innovation and entrepreneurship as the important thing drivers of the transformation.
The world has now recognised the ‘Indian Mannequin of Growth’, which is rooted, futuristic and centered on sustainable growth, he stated.
“We recognise the dynamics of the ‘market economic system’ and on the identical time give attention to ‘welfare economic system’. That’s our energy,” he stated.
Noting that the service sector with greater than 50 per cent contribution to GDP has introduced the nation to the place the place it’s right now, he felt that, maybe, the service sector has turn out to be saturated and there’s a have to give attention to the manufacturing sector, which contributes solely round 17 per cent to the GDP.
“We have to make India a producing hub,” he stated, including that manufacturing must be elevated in order that it contributes to a minimum of 25 per cent of the GDP.
The federal government has centered on strengthening the manufacturing sector by necessary coverage adjustments, akin to ‘Make In India’, ‘ Spend money on India’, PLI Scheme, and FDI liberalisation.
These initiatives will act as a catalyst in India changing into the third largest economic system sooner or later and assist te nation obtain the goal of changing into a 5 trillion greenback economic system, he stated.
India is a information civilisation and, traditionally, India was referred to as the ‘land of innovations’, he stated.
“We’re painfully conscious that right now our previous contributions to astronomy, arithmetic, medication and sensible arts are usually not adequately acknowledged both because of ignorance or prejudice. This stays a formidable problem earlier than all of us,” he stated.
” I’m positive, analysis and innovation in Indian Information Programs, as envisaged below the NEP, will pave the best way for larger scientific validation of India’s conventional information and their worldwide acceptance,” Pradhan stated.
The nation is making a leap within the discipline of innovation. Below the steering of PM Modi, innovation is rising within the nation, he stated.
The startup tradition has taken agency root with the numbers of enterprises having risen manifold to 1.2 lakh in 9 years, an increase of greater than 300 occasions, he stated.