MAWKYRWAT, June 13: Education Minister Rakkam A Sangma on Tuesday said that the state should be ready to face the challenges in implementing the National Education Policy 2020.
He was speaking at a workshop on ‘National Education Policy (NEP) 2020: Role of Stakeholders’, organised by Sngap Syiem College, Mawkyrwat, in collaboration with the Rashtriya Ushatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) Cell Mawkyrwat on the college premises.
In trying to explain the thrust, Sangma drew the attention of the gathering to the words ‘Survival of the Fittest’ in the Theory of Evolution by Charles Darwin. He said said that it is going to happen in this generation and any nation, state, country, individual, institution, leader, political party, or teachers, who have the potential to survive or are the fittest to survive, will survive and exist.
“As teachers and community leaders, we should be willing to adopt any challenges, be prepared and ready to face any kind of challenges in life. There is nothing impossible,” the Education minister said. However, many institutional heads pointed out that they were not ready to implement NEP 2020.
To this, the minister said that implementing NEP is not much of a challenge, “just a manual change here and there.”
Sangma also hailed the Sngap Syiem College, Mawkyrwat, for expressing willingness to implement the NEP 2020, while expecting the college to take a lead in regard with NEP implementation.
He reminded the teachers of their roles and responsibilities in making the state an educational hub, and in reviving its glory.
“If we stick to the same-old procedure, we will be in a pitiable condition and there would be no improvement without changing the educational scenario,” the minister said, while calling upon teachers for support in redesigning, re-igniting and finding pleasure in their profession in order to contribute towards the betterment of the society.
Mawkyrwat MLA Renikton L Tongkhar, on the other hand, urged the teachers and students to look forward and challenge themselves in order to achieve success. Meanwhile, former MLA from Mawsynram, HM Shangpliang said that the NEP 2020 will be a revolution which will bring changes in the educational sector of the state.
The programme was followed by a technical session wherein Head of the Department of Education, NEHU, Shillong, Prof S Sungoh, Assistant Professor, NERIE-NCERT Umiam, Dr Basancy Kharbuki, Assistant Professor NERIE-NCERT, Umiam, Dr Balaiada Dkhar, were the resource persons.
