Ooty, April 25 -- Calling the National Education Policy (NEP) "game changing," Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday said that the policy aligns with the "civilisational ethos" and it is a policy for the nation.

Addressing the Inaugural Session of the Conference of Vice-Chancellors of State, Central and Private Universities of Tamil Nadu at Raj Bhavan in Udhagamandalam, Dhankhar said that taking into consideration inputs from the widest spectrum of stakeholders, there was an evolution of the National Education Policy.

"This policy aligns with our civilizational ethos. It gives primacy to Indian languages. It encourages multi-disciplinary learning. It envisions education as the development of a person and not just employability. The ...