National Education Policy 2020: All You Need to Know:

NEW DELHI: The 

Union Cabinet

 on Wednesday approved the New Education Policy (

NEP

). One of the major decision, 

 Cabinet has renamed the 

Ministry of Human Resource and Development

 (

MHRD

) as the Ministry of Education.

"The Cabinet meeting is chaired by the Prime Minister Mr Narender Modi," said I&B Minister Prakash Javedkar.

The decision of changing the name of the ministry was done as per the recommendations listed in the draft on new education policy, which suggested it to bring the focus back on education and learning.

The new policy would also see an overhaul of the system in place in higher education.