Vocational Education and NEP 2020

Abstract

Vocational education prepares people for work and develops citizens' skills to remain employable and respond to the needs of the economy. It can be defined as skilled based education. It is the need of the hour for every country to have strong vocational education system. Vocational Education helps in Economic growth. The Indian education system recognizes the role of education and particularly Vocational Education. National Council for Vocational Training, an advisory body, was set up by the Government of India plays its important role in implementation of Vocational Education in India. Although there are lots of areas in which India is facing problems in Vocational Education Implementation. This paper is an attempt to study the problems of vocational education in India, to study the new approach of NEP 2020 for increasing employability amongst the youth of India and in turn, leading to sustainability.