The Union Education Minister stressed on the importance of adopting innovative and out-of-the-box methods for enhancing access to quality and affordable education. The Minister also added that making education accessible to all is the top priority of the government. In his address at India Today’s Education Conclave, Dharmendra Pradhan spoke about the necessity of bringing our vast population under the formal education and certified skills structure.

Going ahead the Minister spoke about the need for to integrating skill education into school and higher education to boost employability. “NEP sets the vision and path to cater to the requirements of every learner right from Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE),” he said.

NEP 2020 is designed with the greater goal of establishing India as a knowledge economy of the 21st century. It focuses on developing our youngsters as global citizens with innovative ideas and great skills.
“We must bring a paradigm shift in skilling and make it more aspirational to harness IR 4.0 as well as make our youth future-ready,” said the Minister.

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He went on to talk about his goals for the internship program and stated  “As we prepare the roadmap for India @ 2047, the year India will complete 100 years of independence, we must work together and aim to provide 100 million internship opportunities in the next 2-3 years for boosting employability of youth and building a more productive economy.” He went on to state that providing 1 lakh internships was a welcome beginning and that the industry aims to make the internships available to all.

He went on to tweet that “NEP 2020 emphasises linking industry with academic institutions to make youth future-ready. 1 lakh plus internship opportunities-is a welcome beginning but our academic institutions & industry should aim for providing internship opportunities to all.”

In a series of tweets, he requested the industry to make the internships more diversified in nature. He tweeted “I am happy that the industry today is recognising the need for apprenticeship, skilling and re-skilling”, “I also encourage the companies present here and the industry to diversify internship opportunities, including in humanities and new emerging technologies.”

He went on to request AICTE to link the ‘Academic Bank of credit’ with the internship ecosystem and stated “I also encourage @AICTE_INDIA to find ways to link the internship ecosystem with Academic Bank of Credit and widen the net of internships to make internship & apprenticeship opportunities available for all age groups.”

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“It’s the same story repeated every year hence if students have scored 100 per cent (cut-off), then also we receive too much of applications, which must stop. Also, we will have to work on how to engage more professors to maintain a good teacher-student ratio,” Principal, Anju Srivastava said.

At Hindu College, most students who took admissions to Political Science (Honours) course are from Kerala State Board. So far there have been 70 approved admissions to BA (Honours) Political Science which has a cut-off of 100 per cent for the unreserved category, including three to four admissions under the EWS category, 11 under the OBC category and six to seven under the SC/ST category.

Last month, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had directed central universities to fill up 6,200 vacancies of professors. At Miranda House (DU college), the unreserved seats for Political Science (Honours) course have been filled and there is a possibility that in the second list, only be seats available under the reserved categories will be available.

Many full marks scorers have applied for admission. At Ramjas College (DU college), around 350 applications have been received till now and nearly 200 have been approved. A total of 62 students have already paid admission fees. At Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, so far 650 admission applications have been received out of which 110 forms have been already accepted. Also, certificates of 50 students are pending for verification process, while admission of 250 students has been already rejected.

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