The Union Cabinet which is chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the New Education Policy on the 29th of July 2020. This policy comes to replace a 34-year old National Policy of Education and by the looks of it, it was about time the Indian education system resorted to a more flexible and creative educational policy as opposed to the rigid and redundant one. 

Among some of the major changes the policy brings along, the one that stands out is that the Ministry of Human Resource and Development is now to be known as the Ministry of Education to ensure its focus and area of priority.