CM Manohar Lal Khattar states NEP 2020 to be implemented in Haryana by 2025

The Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has stated on Thursday, March 18, that the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 will be implemented by the state government in all the schools under their jurisdiction by the year 2025.

He said in the state assembly here that with the introduction of Aadhaar-linked admissions, the number of children enrolled in government schools has come down by two lakh as their names were enrolled in both private and government schools.

Apart from the implementation of NEP 2020, he also stated that as per the new rules of the government, the authorities have also decided to shut one school out of two schools running within a radius of



one km.

Congress member Geeta Bhukkal had raised the issue of the closure of some government schools in the state. Former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the government had said it would open "Kisan Model Schools" but the project had failed to take off.

"We will implement the New Education Policy by 2025," Khattar said, as per PTI reports.

He said that the state government in its last tenure passed an Act in the Legislative Assembly for securing services of these guest or temporary teachers up to the age of 58 years. With this, in the 30:1 student-teacher ratio rules across the country, Haryana has made it to the ratio of 25:1, the chief minister said.