What are salient features of National Education Policy 1986 of the Government of India ?

What are salient features of National Education Policy 1986 of the Government of India ?Salient features of National Education Policy 1986 of the Government of India : A national Education Policy was adopted in 1986 in order to meet the new challenges and social needs corresponding to social and economic developments in the country. Following were some of the salient features of it:

1. It laid emphasis on promoting National System of Education which implied that upto a given level, all students, irrespective of caste, creed, location or sex have access to education of a comparable quality.

2. The policy proposed Operation Blackboard which envisaged the need of at least : (i) two reasonally large rooms suitable in all weather, (ii) necessary toys and games material, (iii) blackboards and (iv) Maps, charts and other learning material for the primary schools.

3. The National Education Policy, 1986 emphasised the need to provide equal educational opportunities to those who had been a relatively deprived lot earlier on. Women, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other educationally backward sections and minorities of Indian society were such groups promised equality of educational opportunity.

4. The policy laid stress particularly on the total development of the child; and it was recognized that along with education, nutrition, health, social, mental, physical moral and emotional development of the child must be ensured. This was called Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme which received high priority in the Policy.

5. The Policy laid stress on providing social and moral education to the child to foster national unity and integration to eliminate obscurantism, religious fanaticism, violence, superstitions and fatalism.