Dronacharya PG College of Education, Rait, Kangra (H.P.) has organized a Two-Day National Webinar on ‘National Education Policy 2020: A Holistic Roadmap for the Transformation of Educational Landscape’ in association with GGDSD College, Rajpur (Palampur) and in collaboration with MGNCRE, Deptt. of Higher Education Ministry of Education, Govt. of India on 29thOctober, 2020.Programme was commenced with lighting of lamp to Goddess Saraswati. The Chief Guest of Inaugural session on 29th October, 2020 was Hon’ble Dr. Sikander Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, HPU Shimla . The Chief Guest congratulated to Dronacharya College for organizing this webinar and throw a light on National Education Policy 2020.The keynote speaker of the webinar was Dr. Yogendra Verma, Former Vice-Chancellor of CUHP. Dr. B.S. Pathania, Executive Director, welcomed the Chief Guest, Keynote Speaker, Chairperson of first technical session Dr.N.N.Sharma, Principal Govt. College Jawali and to all the participants.
In the first session, Dr. Rozy Bansal, Assistant Professor, GSSDGS Khalsa College Panjab presented her views on “Impact of Transforming System”. Shruti, Research Scholar, Kerala University, presented her views on “Role of Higher Education in National Education Policy 2020”. Dr. Lakshmisha A.S., Principal, LD and SBS College, Sagra, Karnataka share his thoughts on “Challenge and Way Forward New Education Policy 2020”. Dr. Poonam Devi, HOD, M.Ed., Dronacharya College explained her ideas on the topic “NEP 2020: Quality issues in Internationalization of Education”. P.Bala Murlidhar, Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, Prabhat Kumar College Kotnai, West Bengal presented his views on the topic “A Revolutionary Transformation in Higher System”. Vitika Mahajan, Assistant Professor, Dronacharya College shared her ideas on “Financing Affordable and Quality Education for all and Dr. Inderjit Singh, Assistant Professor, Govt. College Indora presented his views on “Visualization of Indian NEP 2020.”
At the end of the session, Chairperson Dr. N.N.Sharma, Principal Govt. College Jawali and Resource person Dr. Shatrughan Bhardwaj, Regional Coordinator, MGNCRE, Ministry of Education, Govt. of India cleared the doubts of participants. Assistant Professor Sumit Sharma thanked to all the speakers.
Prof. Arvind Jha, Dean School of School Education B.B. Lucknow was the Chairperson of the second session. Associate Professor Dr.Parveen Kumar Sharma was the Resource person of the second session. Manam, Shrinivaslu, Andhra Pradesh explained about the challenges and implementation of New Education Policy 2020. Amit Sharma, Assistant Professor, Govt. College Baroh explained about the challenges that will be faced in the implementation of New Education Policy 2020 in Himachal Pradesh. He also told about the empowerment of teacher education. Dr. Ashwani Kumar shared his views on Holistic and Multidisciplinary Education.
At the end of the Day 1 session, Panel Discussion was held and queries were sorted out.