Abstract: The New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has outlined significant reforms in the Indian Education System. It has mainly emphasized on early childhood education, a mother-tongue-based medium of instruction up to primary education, mandatory vocation training, and a move towards holistic assessment together with developing scientific temperament and a critical thinking to global competitiveness. The principal features of NEP-2020 documents are so close to the ideas of Swami Vivekananda’s expressed on education that document seems to a great extent, on exposition of the ideas of Swami Vivekananda on education which were reflected upon during the Renaissance period of Indian history more than two thousand year back . This released paper humbly attempt to explore how the ideas of Swami Vivekananda are still relevant for the need of preparing human resources for India even in 21st century.

Keywords: NEP 2020, ECCE, Multilingualism, Mother tongue, Skill development, holistic progress card, Equity and Access, SEDGs, positive discrimination.