Shree Swaminarayan Gurukul Sansthan 75th Amrut Mahotsav: PM Modi while addressing via video-conferencing during the event said that IITs, IIMs and medical colleges have increased substantially after 2014. Highlighting the benefits of the new National Education Policy, he said that a forward-looking and futuristic education system is being created.
PM Modi said, "Number of IITs, IIMs and medical colleges in the country increased substantially after 2014."
PM Modi said, "Number of IITs, IIMs and medical colleges in the country increased substantially after 2014." Stressing on the new National Education Policy Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that through the NEP, a forward-looking and futuristic education system is being created in the country for the first time.
Modi, who was addressing the 75th 'Amrut Mahotsav' of Shree Swaminarayan Gurukul at Rajkot via video link, also said the number of IITs, IIMs and medical colleges in the country have increased substantially after 2014, the year when his government came to power for the first time.
"You know very well that for the bright future of India, our existing education policy and institutes have a big role to play. Therefore, in this 'amrit kaal' of independence, whether it is educational infrastructure or education policy, we remain involved with greater speed and expansion," he said.
"In the country today, the number of larger educational institutions like IIT, IIIT, IIM and AIIMS are increasing. After 2014, the number of medical colleges has seen more than 65 per cent increase. Through the new education policy, the country is for the first time preparing an education system which is forward-looking and futuristic," he said.
"Our responsibility was to reinvigorate India's glorious history in our education system after we attained Independence. Govts back then didn't take steps regarding it under the colonial mindset," PM Modi.
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