NEP 2020: National Research Foundation proposed by Education Minister, see details here

Education Minister Dharmendra Prhan on Monday proposed to set up a National Research Foundation. It will be set up under National Education Policy 2020. idea of setting up NRF is to strengn research ecosystem in India. NRF is being expected to act as an umbrella structure. aim of proposing NRF is that it will improve links between Research & Development, acemia, and industry. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Prhan said that total proposed outlay of National Research Foundation is Rs 50,000 crore over a period of five years.

Education Minister on NRF

Education Minister Dharmendra Prhan said that Government proposes to set up a National Research Foundation NRF to strengn research ecosystem in India.  He said, one of main objectives of NRF is to seed, grow and facilitate research at acemic institutions, particularly at universities and colleges.  Education Minister tweeted, "Under NEP, GOI has proposed to set up National Research Foundation with a total outlay of ₹50,000 crore over a period of 5 years to strengn research ecosystem in country and build an #AatmanirbharBharat."

Objectives of NRF

idea behind proposing NRF is objectives which it will carry. One of major objectives of NRF is to seed, grow and facilitate research facilities at acemic institutions. In acemic institutions, special focus will be given to universities and colleges, where research capacity is currently in development st. NRF's ar objective is to fund and support high-impact, large-scale, multi-investigator, multi-institution, and interdisciplinary or multi-nation projects. All se things mentioned above will be done in collaboration with relevant Ministries, Departments, and or Governmental and n-Governmental entities, especially industry.

Or Policies by Education Ministry

In a major development in 2020, Government anunced a New Education Policy. National Education Policy, 2020 was anunced almost a year ago on 29th July 2020. NEP 2020 enviss transformational changes in education sector. Ar major recommendation by Education Ministry was to promote use of regional langus in education sector. Considering this, government took many steps including-

• NEET exam for medical entrance which was being conducted in 11 langus will w be conducted in 13 langus.
• JEE (Main) which was being conducted in 3 langus is w being conducted in 13 langus.
• Technical education in 8 Regional langus in certain AICTE approved institutions from acemic session 2021-2022 on pilot basis.
• “AICTE Translation Automation Artificial Intelligence Tool” to translate English langu online courses into eleven different langus like Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Kanna, Malayalam, Punjabi, Assamese & Odia for access to a more significant number of students in rural area.
• MOU has been concluded between Govt of Haryana and AICTE towards publishing 1,000 books in Hindi.