Srilanka, Sept. 27 -- Six years after its launch, the National Education Policy 2020 is beginning to move from policy architecture to change at the institutional and classroom levels. Its biggest achievement is fundamentally altering how India thinks about education, shifting from rote learning and rigid disciplines to foundational learning, multidisciplinary education, research, technology, and global integration.

India's National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 turned six in July 2026. In the life of a national education system, six years is not a long period. Yet it is long enough to ask an important question: has NEP moved beyond government notifications and policy documents to produce visible changes in classrooms, universities and th...