We take recourse to policy making to address our needs that always keep on changing. I feel those behind the new education policy must have felt some thing amiss in the present education system. The flaws as perceived by them apropos of the existing policy might have prompted them to go for a new one. Truly speaking, I don't know for certain what exactly are these flaws as perceived by them and in what way the new one seeks to eliminate or rectify them to say the least. Nevertheless I should have reason to believe that since any policy is formulated by the best minds employed by government in power, the new education policy should fulfill the need and expectations of the people of India in general and stakeholders in particulars. Be what it may, but I cannot desist myself from saying that 1.the basic purpose of education is character building in ways more than one. "सा विद्या ...