new delhi the proposal in the new national education policy nep to make board exams easy will not address the issue of rote learning because the education system will continue to be a slave of the evaluation system according to delhi deputy chief minister manish sisodia sisodia who is also delhis education minister said the policy fails to address the need of improving the public education system and focuses on private education and some of the reforms outlined are part of wishful thinking our education system has always been a slave of our evaluation system and it will continue to be so the plan to make board exams easy is not going to address the root cause of the problem which is the focus on rote learning the emphasis will still be on yearend exams the need is to do away with the concept of evaluating students at the end of the session be it easy or difficult sisodia told in an interview by saying that board exams will be easy we are not moving towards focus on knowledge application the policy fails to address this issue some of the reforms proposed are good too and in fact we have already been working on them but some of them are just part of a wishful thinking he added asserting that the policy which has been revised after decades does not focus on government schools sisodia said there is no mention at all about what can be done or what will be done to improve the state of public schools in the country does that mean all initiatives will be successfully implemented in private schools and colleges and that is the only way out the policy says philanthropic participation will be encouraged almost all big chains of schools and even higher educational institutions are based on a philanthropic model only which the supreme court has already referred to as teaching shops so are we going to encourage that only why did we need a new policy then he asked the nep approved by the union cabinet last month replaces the 34yearold national policy on education framed in 1986 and is aimed at paving the way for transformational reforms in schools and higher education systems to make india a global knowledge superpower teaching up to class 5 in mother tongue or regional language lowering the stakes of board exams a single regulator for higher education institutions except for law and medical colleges and common entrance tests for universities are part of the sweeping reforms in the new nep replacing the 102 structure of school curricula with a 5334 curricular structure corresponding to age groups 38 811 1114 and 1418 years respectively scrapping mphil programmes and implementing common norms for private and public higher education institutions are among other salient features of the new policy the policy is bringing wishful thinking that six per cent of gdp should be implemented if we do not have a plan to implement what has been proposed