Nanded: The National Education Policy (NEP) will enhance the quality of higher education in a backward region like Marathwada, according to academics and experts.

Addressing a symposium organised by Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University (SRTMU) and People's College, Vice Chancellor Manohar Chaskar said higher education needed to be skill-based to make it socially relevant.

Dr. Venkatesh Kabde, former MP and Nanded Education Society (NES) president, said large sections of Indian society were still deprived of higher education and hoped NEP-2020 would integrate these sections into the mainstream.