New education policy 2020: jack of all trades but master of what?

Economic development is a complex process in which financial and human capital are combined in sophisticated and productive ways, and that is why certain countries advance in this process much more rapidly than others. Education in every sense is one of the fundamental factors of economic development. Therefore, it is urgently required to provide quality education to the student community at the cheapest possible cost. West Bengal as a state had occupied a place of pride in the educational sphere in India. The key towards such success was its maintenance of quality in imparting knowledge among its students. At one point of time West Bengal participated in the rat race and started reducing burden of the students so that they can score well in the examination. There is no reason to deny that development of Information and communication Technology has enhanced the accessibility of both teacher and learner to expanded horizon of inputs. But the question is whether such enriched support system is sufficient to ensure provision of quality education to the learners. The essential prerequisite for successful impart of quality education is assimilation of knowledge on the part of teacher and transmission of assimilated knowledge to the learners. If we analyse the entire education system, we find a Pyramidal structure with three tiers. At the bottom there lies educational institutions and at the top there is Government. The first National Policy on Education in 1968, National Policy on Education in 1986 & its modification in 1992 and New Education Policy 2020 are instrumental to achieve those objectives of the Government of India. Present New Education Policy 2020 has envisaged flexible multidisciplinary approach to higher education putting an emphasis to research orientation. This present paper seeks to analyse whether New Education Policy will be able to reach its goal or simply produce Jack of All Trades but Master of None.