New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- In the last few years, education as a sector in India has seen some serious disruption through technology. Multiple start-ups have come up, trying to solve one problem too many, which extends beyond just the lack of accessibility. So when the government brought about the third National Education Policy a few days ago, there was obvious cheer.

While start-ups have diligently been doing their part, some changes at the policy level have long been necessary. For one, among a few of the things proposed was the big change in how students have had to choose streams in Grade 11. As per the NEP 2020, the distinction between streams such as Science, Commerce and Humanities or even curricular and non-curricular, will be done a...