Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to meet Vice-Chancellors of 45 central universities today

The Minister will be discussing the issues related to the implementation of the new NEP 2020, and its features including the academic bank of credit and multiple entry-exit systems.

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will be meeting the Vice-Chancellors of 45 Central Universities today; i.e. September 3. The Education Minister's meet is scheduled to be held in virtual mode. He has been meeting the Vice-Chancellors of different Universities during the last month, but this will be the first formal meeting of the Education Minister with the Central Universities’ Vice-Chancellors in a group. 
As part of the first formal meet of the Union Education Minister and the Vice-Chancellors of the 45 central universities, the Minister will be discussing the issues related to the implementation of the new National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020), and its features including the academic bank of credit and multiple entry-exit system.

Open and online education, glue grant for education institutions, and the start of the academic session 2021-22 are also in the list of items that will be discussed today by the Education Minister with the 45 Central Universities’ Vice-Chancellors.

As per the official statement, the Union Minister will be discussing the steps that need to be taken to fill up the backlog vacancies of teachers belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC)/ Scheduled Tribes (ST)/ Other Backward Classes (OBC) and Economically Weaker Section (EWS) categories.

The virtual meet today with the Vice-Chancellors has also listed the celebration of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mohotsav’ as a topic of discussion for today.

‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, is an initiative that has been taken by the Central Government to celebrate 75 years of India's Independence. This year, the Central government has asked all the states to participate in ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, which is a series of celebrations organised to mark the 75 years of independence.

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