Purpose: To understand in a nutshell educational policy carried out after the independence of India. To accumulate information about educational reforms carried out in the last seven decades. To interpret the problems of the education sector. To find the existing gap between educational delivery and market demand. To find opportunities and avenues to effectively implement the new education policy in 2020.
Research Design: The study uses descriptive research design by using secondary data including research articles published in international journals and books published from 2012 to 2023, which are available for search in the google scholar database.
Result/Outcome/Findings of the Study: The paper highlights various educational policies and their lacunas. The study elucidates the evolution of education policies, a comparative analysis of various policies and ways forward to implement National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The SWOC analysis of NEP determines the existing gap and suggests measures for the country's effective inception, adoption and implementation of NEP 2020.
Originality/Value: The selection of relevant content for exploration based on the literature survey, segregation of dimensions of old educational policies based on the literature survey and SWOC analysis upon the New Education Policy 2020 is unique in content, review and analysis bringing originality to the derived conclusions.
Paper type: A Case Study