NEP 2020 emphasized the integration of value education to promote

NEP 2020 stresses integrating value education to promote the holistic development of students across their intellectual, emotional, social and ethical growth.

Fostering life-skill education alone is narrower than the whole-person growth value education aims at.

Promoting religious education is not the purpose, since value education is meant to be secular and universal.

Advancing only skill development leaves out the moral and emotional dimensions central to value education.

Holistic development treats character, ethics and empathy as part of learning, not extras.

The policy weaves values, ethics and constitutional principles across the curriculum at all stages.