<span style="color: #222222;">Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan has launched the draft of National Credit Framework (NCF) for public consultation.<br />''<br />'' The Government has developed it to enable the integration of academic and vocational domains to ensure flexibility and mobility between them. The Framework would be a game changer by opening numerous options for further progression of students and inter-mingling of school and higher education with vocational education and experiential learning. It will also enable students who have dropped out of mainstream education to re-enter the education ecosystem.<br />''<br />''Speaking on the occasion in New Delhi yesterday, Mr Pradhan said that National Credit Framework is a next-generation, multidimensional instrument under National Education Policy, 2020. He said, that National Credit Framework is an umbrella framework for skilling, re-skilling, up-skilling, accreditation, and evaluation encompassing our people in educational & skilling institutions and workforce. Mr. Pradhan appealed to all institutions, schools, ITIs, AICTE-affiliated engineering colleges, centrally-funded Higher Education Institutions, state universities, and regulatory authorities to host the public consultation for the  Framework on their website.<br />''<br />''Minister of State for Education Annpurna Devi and Minister of State for Skill Development and  Entrepreneurship Rajeev Chandrasekhar were also present on the occasion.</span><br />