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India’s vast education system faces a quality and employability crisis, with many graduates lacking essential skills. NEP 2020 offers a timely reform push, but real change depends on transforming teachers into “Gurus” who foster critical thinking, life skills, and holistic growth, moving beyond rote learning to create truly enlightened individuals.

Indian education system is at a crossroad; huge in terms of size with more than 1,000 universities, 50,000 colleges and 15 lac schools but not so highly rated in global standards and quality. Not only for economic development, but education also plays a pivotal role for social growth as well and therefore, NEP 2020 has come at the right time to take Indian education to the next level.

At the core of change of the educational system lies the role of teachers and classroom teaching as that is fundamental for transformation of a student’s life. As the complexities arise and aspiration of Gen Z skyrockets, one issue that is a matter of serious concern is the growing scale of unemployment and under-employment among the educated youth. All research shows that majority of the youth graduating today are unemployable in terms of skills and competencies.

And one of the reasons for this mismatch is the system of our “educational processes” and the “teaching acumen” of teachers at various levels. The country has no doubt brilliance in terms of teachers, but their number is not adequate considering the size of the educational system. We need radical transformation in the type of teachers and the ways things are taught for a real transformation in the educational system.

It is in the above context, we are trying to look at alteration role of a teacher from a mere “TEACHER” to a “GURU”.