ArdorComm Media Bureau
April 24, 2026
What is your perspective on NEP 2020 and its implementation in early childhood education?
NEP is about implementation, transformation, and policy. Transformation cannot happen with a closed or transactional mindset—it requires an open mindset.
Leaders play a crucial role in implementing NEP. They must take initiatives to prepare people, especially teachers. When we build people, we help them grow.
Today, many institutions prefer experienced teachers, but experience often comes with a traditional mindset. We need to create space for new learning, adaptation, and innovation. Old methods, textbooks, and examination patterns must be paused to allow room for change.
A teacher handles everything in a classroom. If they are occupied with traditional tasks like maintaining registers and logbooks, they won’t have time to innovate.
While setting standards is a leader’s job, personalization is equally important. Managing personalization for 40 students is challenging, so teachers need proper training, methodologies, and continuous support. Teacher training and leadership support systems are essential for real transformation.
In early childhood education, how important are hygiene and infrastructure standards?
Hygiene is essential, but I would define it more broadly as institutional readiness. If the environment is not hygienic, secure, and well-equipped with medical support, children will not feel safe.
A clean, secure, and friendly environment builds trust. Without that trust, children may attend school physically but will not truly engage or develop.
Basic requirements like cleanliness, proper washrooms, fire safety systems, and medical facilities must be in place. Beyond that, the environment should feel warm and welcoming.
When children trust their environment, they are able to express themselves, learn better, and develop holistically. Hygiene, therefore, is a fundamental part of institutional development.
What is your view on digital hygiene in early childhood education?
Digital hygiene is still lacking, and this may be uncomfortable to admit.
Many teachers use platforms like WhatsApp to share activity links, including AI-based tools. However, these links are often not secure. A young child can easily navigate away to other platforms like YouTube.
Digital hygiene requires continuous guidance. Parents must be actively involved. If a child is using a device for even 30 minutes, a parent should be present during that time.
While schools may implement secure systems within classrooms, the real challenge lies at home. Accountability is key. Without supervision and guidance, children may consume inappropriate or irrelevant content.
Parents need to adjust their routines to ensure proper monitoring of their child’s digital consumption.
What are your key takeaways from today’s forum?
It has been an amazing experience. Leadership also requires mentorship, and being around experienced people is very important.
This platform brings together different generations—boomers, millennials, and Gen Z—each with different educational backgrounds and experiences. This kind of interaction helps bridge the generational gap.
Such collaboration is essential if we aim to build a strong future. Guidance and mentorship are crucial, and I hope to carry forward this legacy while also becoming a mentor for the next generation.