Blitz Bureau
VICE-PRESIDENT Jagdeep Dhankhar has said the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is a game-changer and urged the states who have not yet adopted it to rethink and revisit their stance.
Addressing the International Literacy Day celebrations in New Delhi on September 8, he said, “The NEP empowers our youth to fully exploit their talent and energy, giving due importance to all languages.” He called upon people to promote literacy. He remarked it was time for India to be in mission mode with commitment and passion to ensure 100 per cent literacy.
“When we make someone literate, we liberate them, we help that person discover themselves, we make them feel dignity, we cut down dependence, we generate independence and interdependence. It is a supreme facet of handholding,” he said.
“The joy and happiness you provide by educating a person, whether a man, a woman, a child, or a girl, is beyond measure. You can’t imagine the happiness it will bring you. It will spread in a positive manner. It will be the greatest affirmative action you can take in Human Resource Development”, he said.
Dhankhar asserted that “education is something that no thief can take it away”. “No Government can snatch it from you. Neither relatives nor friends can take it away from you. There can be no reduction in it. It will grow and continue to grow as long as you keep sharing it. If literacy is pursued passionately, India can reclaim its ancient status as a centre of learning like Nalanda and Takshashila,” he said. Emphasising on India’s linguistic diversity, he said, “The mother tongue is the language in which we dream.
There is no country in the world like India. We are a unique nation when it comes to the richness of language, with several languages.”
