By Our Reporter
SHILLONG, Aug 29: The Opposition Trinamool Congress (TMC) has made an appeal to the MCTA and NEHU Vice Chancellor Prabha Shankar Shukla to come up with a mutually-agreed upon roadmap and end the ongoing stalemate over implementation of the NEP 2020.
“Our appeal would be to resolve this issue amicably. A mutually-agreed upon roadmap can be designed so that NEP can see the light of the day and there is a handholding of all stakeholders to ensure that the focus on education, and enhanced skills and expectations of NEP are implemented,” TMC vice president, George B Lyngdoh said.
“Maybe, they have genuine concerns and from the small interactions that I have had with the faculties here and there, they definitely have expressed their burdens based on the expectations of NEP, so definitely challenges will be there and how to address these will only come through mutual discussions and understanding and not by any kind of sternness,” he further said.
He said if both sides stick to their own demands and stance, the students will ultimately suffer.
“The implementation of any new policy definitely comes with its challenges and therefore, at one glimpse itself, NEP comes with a huge burden of additional human resource and infrastructure which may not be readily available with the current strength and the available resources of various institutions,” Lyngdoh said.
He asked what steps have been taken by the Centre to augment resources and infrastructure of the institutions since 2020 with the initiation of NEP.
“It is not fair upon the central government to expect that with the current challenges that we have seen in the Education department and the current strain on resources and strength we have, it will be too early to perhaps to immediately jump into the next level of immediately implementing NEP in case the central government has not come out with any kind of support system,” the TMC leader said.
He added, “Definitely the teachers have their share of burden and there will be expectations as they are the main stakeholders when it comes to implementing the mandate of NEP therefore but then the VC has not been clear in the public domain as to how this thing will be taken forward.”