INDIAN ACADEMY

                       Teachers' Day: Remembering My Teachers                                                  Dr. Keshab Chandra Mandal     Happy Teachers' Day. On this auspicious occasion, I touch the feet of all my teachers and seek blessings. My teachers, after my parents, are the best people in this world. I pray to God Almighty for their good health and well-being. My University Teachers Professor Amartya Mukhopadhyaya, Prof. Dipankar Sinha, Prof. Partha Pratim Basu, Prof. Malyashree Mukherjee, Prof. Aneek Chatterjee, Prof. Uddolok Roy are gems of the academic world. Late Prof. Tarun Chandra Bose and late Prof. Prasanta Sengupta were so great people that I still remember their words and teachings, and follow them accordingly. My Ph. D. supervisor, Prof. Anil Kumar Jana, another great acad...

  DR. KESHAB CHANDRA MANDAL     Education is the mirror of a society. Also, it is considered as the sharpest weapon by which one can defeat the socioeconomic evils. Education makes one wise, sympathetic, conscious and responsible citizen. Like the health, foreign, trade and commerce every democratic government has some policies on education too. And, this policy needs necessary changes from time to time to meet the demands of time. India formulated its first Policy on Education in 1968 under Indira Gandhi while the second and last Policy on Education came into effect in 1986, which was modified partially in 1992. Since then three decades have been passed, and the world has undergone a sea change. As a result, a new education policy was essential to fulfill the social, scientific, technological and vocational needs of society. Besides, two global development goals – Millennium Development Goals (2001) and Sustainable Development Goals (2015) have been declared by the U...

  National Education Policy-2020: The Engine of India's Future Growth - Dr. Keshab Chandra Mandal, Ph. D.   Every Government Education Policy has some aims and objectives, and the new National Education Policy-2020 is not an exception. The Introduction Part-I of the National Education Policy on Education, 1992 ( National Policy on Education – 1986 (as modified in 1992), p. 2) highlights that, “Education has continued to evolve, diversify and extend its reach and coverage since the dawn of human history.   Every country develops its system of education to express and promote its unique socio cultural identity and also to meet the challenges of the times. There are moments in history when a new direction has to be given to an age-old process. That moment is today. The country has reached a stage in its economic and technical development when a major effort must be made to derive the maximum benefit from the assets already created and to ensure that the fruits of change ...