Perspectives on influence of draft national educational policy 2019 on psychology as a discipline Kashyapi Thakuria

According to UNESCO, there are 282 million illiterates in India, making India the largest country with illiterate adults in the world. (Staff, 2015) [8].Educating in abundance is not just a remonstrance but a great need to the country's social and economic progress. Though the post-colonial India has invested a lot of resources into educating the masses, the growth of literacy rate is still at a slower pace. In order to systematically archive the mission to educate the Indian masses the Government of India has formulated the National Education Policy (NEP). NEP brought out, in 1986 and 1992 (Anonymous, 2016) i.e after a period of 26 years under the leadership of Honourable Minister of Human Resource Development, Prakash Javedkar, the new NEP has been drafted under the leadership of K. Kasturirangan (Kasturirangan, 2019)[6]-[4]. The new draft is an exhaustive presentation of the present educational practices and proposes the ways and means in creating a better education system in India. The article reviews the Higher Education specifically based on the vision for the future concept of Universities and colleges in India, with respect to psychology as a discipline. New draft NEP proposes multidisciplinary Higher Educational Institutions enrolling a larger number of students and restructuring of higher education with three variety of education establishment into categories of Type 1, 2 and 3. In precise, this work highlights the impact of the new NEP on the discipline of Psychology.