Teachers have major role to play in achieving goal of ‘Viksit Bharat’ by 2047: Goyal

Teachers of the country have a major role to play in achieving the goal of ‘Viksit Bharat’ (developed India) by 2047, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday.
Addressing a gathering of teachers and principals at an event in Swami Vivekananda International School in North Mumbai, from where Goyal is contesting the Lok Sabha elections, the commerce and industry minister said that the government had carried out consultations for several years before rolling out the new education policy in 2020.
"Nobody has heard of any criticism about the policy” despite the fact that the country has all types of critics, he said.