NEP 2020 is into massive controveries in the state of Tamil Nadu. A statement by educationists stated, ‘NEP 2020 demolishes the federal character of India by promoting centralization, by controlling all decision-making from ECCE and primary education to higher education, including professional education. This cannot be countenanced.’  Since the State had progressed well in the field of education, the Assembly should adopt a resolution demanding transfer of Education as subject to List II in Seventh Schedule under Article 246 of the Constitution of India (as was the case in the original Constitutional scheme), the statement said.

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‘As is known, originally education was a state subject in the Constitution. In 1976 (during Emergency) by 42nd Constitution Amendment, it was shifted to the Concurrent List (List III under Article 246),’ the signatories of the statement explained. Execution of NEP 2020 would usurp the constitutional right and duty of the State and Union Territory governments to frame their own policies and programmes or enact laws concerning education, as per the needs and aspirations of the people of the State, the statement said.

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Even before the State government had decided on the policy issue relating to the NEP, teachers, who are employees of the government, had been asked to give suggestions on it, the statement pointed out and said the Union Secretary writing to the School Education Secretary even before the policy was placed before Parliament was a serious violation of the federal structure of India.

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