<span style="color: #222222;">Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' has emphasized that the National Education Policy, NEP-2020, is revolutionary in all aspects. He said, it focuses on multiple aspects of promoting mother language at primary level education, imparting vocational skills training for students at the secondary level and other innovative reforms. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The  Education Minister said this while inaugurating the two-day Virtual International Akhand Conference 'EDUCON 2020' through video conferencing. He further stated that NEP emphasizes on the inter-disciplinary studies and integrated course curriculum in higher education for wider learning opportunities, with an aim to provide value-based holistic education, development of scientific temper and imparting skill training to youngsters. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He further added that this policy also considers the need to design a framework for extended use of technology in the teaching-learning process and  development of online course contents. Mr Nishank gave the mantra of 'Perform, Reform and Transform' for successfully implementing all new imperatives of NEP-2020 essential for changing the society and transforming the life of youth for evolving global peace.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Education Ministry in a statement said, during this International Conference, scholars from the United Kingdom, Canada, Thailand, USA, Australia, Bhutan and India would be continuously discussing the ten subthemes of the focal theme 'Envisioning Education for Transforming Youth to Realize Global Peace' for 31 hours. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">This conference is the first of its kind in India where scholars across the world would be continuously having a non-stop marathon dialogue session for 31 hours exploring the possibilities of the use of ICT in higher education to promote an equitable quality education in India.</span><br />''