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07/07/22 06:03 AM IST

Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Samagam

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  • Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will inaugurate a three day Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Samagam at Varanasi.
About Summit 
  • Organized by the Ministry of Education in association with University Grants Commission and Banaras Hindu University.
  • The Summit will provide a platform for leading Indian Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs)  to discuss, deliberate and share insights on strategies, success stories and best practices in implementing the National Education Policy, 2020. 
  • The Ministry, along with UGC and AICTE, has brought in several policy initiatives like Academic Bank of Credit, Multiple Entry Exit, Multi disciplinarity and Flexibility in higher education, regulations aimed at boosting online and open distance learning, revising the National Curriculum Framework to make it more in sync with global standards, promoting multi linguality and Indian Knowledge Systems and making both a part of educational curriculum, mainstreaming skill education and promoting lifelong learning, to name a few.
  • The Summit is expected to provide a platform for thought-provoking discussions that will  articulate the roadmap and implementation strategies, foster knowledge exchange and build networks through interdisciplinary deliberations and discuss challenges being faced by educational institutions and articulate solutions.
  • The key highlight of the Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Samagam will be the adoption of the Varanasi Declaration on Higher Education which will showcase India’s extended vision and a renewed commitment to help achieve the goals of higher education system.
Source- PIB 

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