Lok Sabha Question No. 1286 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-08
Subject: Primary and Higher Education under NEP 2020
Ministry: EDUCATION
Asked by: Shri Adhikari Soumendu

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO- 1286 ANSWERED ON 08/12/2025

## Primary and Higher Education under NEP 2020

1286. Shri Adhikari Soumendu:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether  the  Government  proposes  compulsory  primary  and  higher  education  system under National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 in the country;
- (b) if so, the time by which education system is likely to come into complete effect;
- (c)  whether  each  and  every  school  have  to  get  individual  State  registration  and  board affiliation with single entity under NEP 2020 policy rules and law; and
- (d) if so, the  details  thereof  along  with  the  time  by  which  the  schools  which  are running/operating  under  single  school  name  and  single  registration  with  single  UDISE  in different places should constitute/rename with new name for registration and affiliation under single individual identity thereto?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

## (SHRI JAYANT CHAUDHARY)

(a) to (d): National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 envisages modification of the extant 10+2 structure  in  school  education  with  a  new  pedagogical  and  curricular  restructuring  of 5+3+3+4 covering ages 3-18. Accordingly, the curricular and pedagogical structure and the curricular framework for school education is to be guided by a 5+3+3+4 design, consisting of the Foundational Stage (3 years of Anganwadi/preschool + 2 years in primary school in Grades 1-2; both together covering ages 3-8), Preparatory Stage (Grades 3-5, covering ages 8-11), Middle Stage (Grades 6-8, covering ages 11-14), and Secondary Stage (Grades 9-12 in two phases, i.e., 9 and 10 in the first and 11 and 12 in the second, covering ages 14-18).

Additionally, the National Curriculum Framework for the Foundational Stage (NCFFS) and National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF-SE) has been launched by the Department of School Education and Literacy. NEP 2020 provides different timelines as well as principles and methodology for its implementation. It also envisions operationalization  of  the  entire  policy  in  the  decade  of  2030-40,  following  which  another comprehensive review will be undertaken.

Further,  Education  is  in  the  concurrent  list  of  the  constitution  and  majority  of  the schools  are  under  the  administrative  domain  of  the  respective  State  and  UT  Government. The registration of the state schools and their affiliation  with  the  respective  Boards  comes under  the  purview  of  the  respective  State  and  UT  Government.    Furthermore,  the  major responsibility of implementation of NEP 2020 following prescribed norms and standards also falls under the domain of the respective States and UT Governments.

UDISE+  is  a  unified  platform,  facilitating  streamlined  data  reporting  by  schools providing  formal  as  well  as  special  education  that  are  recognized  by  the  government,  and affiliated to recognised state, national, international or private school education boards (such as CBSE, ICSE, Cambridge etc.). It was developed with the objective to collate credible and comparable  information  collected  using  a  standardized  'Data  Capture  Format'  across  the country through online, real-time mode in an efficient manner. This comprehensive school education database is monitored and maintained at block, district, state, and national levels.

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