Delhi Leads, Bengal Will Follow: New Education Minister Signals Full NEP Adoption
Subhankar Chowdhury | 11 June 2026 | The Telegraph
Bengal’s new higher education minister, Jagannath Chattopadhyay, said on Wednesday that his department would implement the National Education Policy (NEP), introduced by the Narendra Modi government in 2020, in letter and spirit.
His assertion that the state would adhere strictly to the policy immediately fuelled discussions about the possible introduction of curricula based on the “Indian Knowledge System”, an aspect of the NEP that the previous Mamata Banerjee government had resisted….