Title: NEP 2020 As A Catalyst Of Capability And Cultural Strategy Download

Author’s : Prateek Mundeja

Date of Publication (ONLINE) :-23-12-2025
DOI :-10.71037/gyanvividha.v2i4.57

Online Publication Certificate No. :– GV/597

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Mundeja Prateek. ”NEP 2020 As A Catalyst Of Capability And Cultural Strategy”, Published in GYANVIVIDHA, ISSN: 3048-4537(O) & 3049-2327 (P), Volume-2 | Issue- 4, Oct.-Dec., 2025, Page No. :-419-432. URL: https://journal.gyanvividha.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Prateek-Mundeja-Gyanvividha-vol2-issue-4-Oct.-Dec.-2025-pp-419-432.pdf

Abstract :  The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 represents a transformative shift in India’s post-liberalisation landscape, reimagining education as a core instrument for shaping the nation’s political, cultural, and economic trajectory. This paper evaluates NEP 2020 through a dual political-economic lens, synthesising the developmental ethics of Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach with the critical-political framework of Antonio Gramsci’s ‘War of Position’. Utilising a Qualitative Critical Policy Analysis (CPA), the study deconstructs how the policy functions as a “strategic hybrid”—simultaneously expanding individual freedoms and curating a shared national consciousness. The analysis through Sen’s framework reveals that provisions for Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN), multidisciplinarity, and student autonomy serve to enhance “substantive freedoms” and individual agency. Conversely, the Gramscian lens identifies the mainstreaming of Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) and regional language instruction as a strategic bid for cultural hegemony, intended to build a new national “common sense” rooted in civilizational pride.

Keywords : The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, transformative, liberalisation, political-economic lens, Qualitative Critical Policy Analysis.

Publication Details:

Journal : GYANVIVIDHA (ज्ञानविविधा)

ISSN : 3048-4537 (Online)

3049-2327 (Print)

Published In : Volume-2 | Issue-4, Oct.-Dec., 2025

Page Number(s) : 419-432

Publisher Name :

 Mrs Anubha Chaudhary | https://journal.gyanvividha.com | E-ISSN 3048-4537 | P-ISSN 3049-2327