NEP to boost Indian patents: Pokhriyal at Bennett Univ

Noida, former union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said on Thursday the national education policy Nep has laid the foundation for students to "stay and study in India". Speaking as Chief Guest at Bennett University's first Literary Event - Aalekh 2k23 the Power of Ink a Carnival of Books - Pokhriyal who was at the helm of the Nep said the policy will help achieve the central government's vision of making the Indian education system patentrich. "Nep will have farreaching effects" said the BJP MP and former Uttar Pradesh CM adding feedback from 1000 universities and suggestions from teachers and gram panchayats from across India had been taken before the policy was prepared. "When I was Education Minister I studied educational institutes abroad to figure out why our students were going abroad I found that our children were in the biggest companies as CEOs and at educational institutes in the US, UK etc this proved that our education system was supreme there was nothing wrong with it so I coined the Stay and Study in India' concept which is the foundation of Nep." Pokhriyal said. "We are a country that had Taxila and Nalanda as great centres of learning from the time when