“Reimagining Indian Education: Policy, Employability, and Structural Transformation investigates the institutional, historical, and economic evolution of Indian educational planning, focusing on the conceptualization, execution, and outcomes of graduate employability. The monograph evaluates the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 as a watershed moment that supersedes previous post-independence frameworks, specifically the National Policies on Education of 1968 and 1986.
The volume demonstrates that educational reform in India cannot be evaluated in an institutional vacuum. Instead, it is continuously shaped by three enduring structural tensions: federal negotiations between Union standardization and sub-national autonomy under Concurrent List jurisdiction; entrenched caste- and class-based hierarchies separating mental labor (Manas) from manual execution (Kayika); and the macroeconomic gap between supply-side credential expansion and formal demand-side job creation. To overcome these challenges, NEP 2020 introduces modular systemic mechanisms—such as the National Credit Framework (NCrF), the Academic Bank of Credits (ABC), the Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) with multiple entry and exit points, and school-level vocational exposure from Grade 6.
Combining archival analysis with empirical evidence from AISHE, PLFS, ASER, and the India Skills Report, the text evaluates regulatory consolidations, institutional delivery models, and comparative global practices across Germany, Singapore, South Korea, Finland, and China. Ultimately, this monograph provides a rigorous roadmap aligned with Sustainable Development Goal 4, demonstrating that achieving genuine workforce readiness requires pairing curricular innovations with industrial policy, statutory wage parity, and cooperative federalism. “
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