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Education is fundamental for achieving full human potential, developing an equitable and just society and promoting national development. The first education policy was promulgated by the Government of India in 1968, the second is in 1986 and recently New Education Policy (NEP) in 2020 to enhance education. NEP 2020 is both visionary and ambitious. Much of its success will depend on its execution. The government had opened the draft for public feedback in 2019. At that time, it received stiff opposition from non-Hindi speaking States that saw it as an attempt to impose Hindi on them. Finally, it was approved by the union cabinet and was passed without discussion or debate in a parliament. It aims for national integration through education that enables our students to actualize their potentials and appears to be sufficiently open and flexible to embrace the journey of all. One of its strengths is its multi-disciplinary and availability of choice-based pursuits to the students at the level of the school. The present 10+2 system is replaced by 5+3+3+4 in school education. It offers the schools to choose any medium of instruction but also proposes that it is to be mother tongue or any other regional language alongside its three-language formula which consists of any two regional languages. States will have the freedom to choose the language of instruction in the democratic and decentralized process laid out in the National Education Policy, 2020. Tamil Nadu, a non-Hindi State opposes the NEP 2020. This paper highlights the provisions given in NEP 2020 which has been opposed by Tamil Nadu State Government and the issues related with that. Tamil Nadu are proposing their own State Education Policy (SEP). Education is the corner stone for improving quality of citizens in India. The present education system must take the first step towards realizing this goal.