Union Cabinet clears new National Education framework

The Union Cabinet approved a new framework to strengthen school and higher education, with added outlays for digital learning and teacher training. Cabinet decisions like this frequently appear in the Governance and Social Justice portions of the syllabus.

• • Builds on the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
• • NEP 2020 restructured schooling into a 5+3+3+4 design.
• • Education is on the Concurrent List of the Constitution.
• • Key NEP goals: foundational literacy & numeracy and a higher Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER).

NEP 2020

National Education Policy — the policy guiding India's education reforms.

GER

Gross Enrolment Ratio — enrolment as a percentage of the eligible age group.

Concurrent List

Subjects on which both the Union and States can legislate.

• Q. Education was moved from the State List to the Concurrent List by which amendment? (42nd Amendment, 1976.)
• Q. The 5+3+3+4 structure is associated with which policy? (NEP 2020.)

• ↗ PIB press release
• ↗ Ministry of Education — NEP 2020 document