EP#37 | Bangla Podcast | Swati Moitra | National Education Policy 2020

Since its publication, NEP 2020 has been in the center of numerous controversies. While many lauded it for apparent modernization of Indian education by enabling more flexible curriculum, it has been criticized for over-centralization, politicization and broadening the way to invite more private capital into an already highly unequal education system. In this episode Swati Moitra, a professor at Gurudas College, Kolkata, and an education activist, elaborates on several issues with NEP, more prominently, how it should be seen in a continued global effort of transforming education from a fundamental right to a user-pay commodity and how the so-called modernization aspects are founded on rather shaky ground.