**6. Conclusion**

India needs to double its educational spending and private sector must take care the social justice in its educational institutions. The demand for admission in higher education comes from rural areas because declining of the rural economy and families from urban areas where they have stable jobs and had been settled in cities. Education is an agent of change not only in individuals but society and economy also. Education is a mainstream of nation-building that must be socially just, politically equitable, and economically affordable for education-seekers in India. Education is not only required for becoming eligible for jobs but also require *Higher Education in India: New Educational Policy – 2020 and Educational Issues... DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.101592*

for nation-building. Adequate representation of the people from socially and educationally marginalized communities in higher education is a dream of people involved in the country's freedom struggle. Even after 74 years of India's independence, still the presence of people whether scholars or teachers in higher education is few countable numbers.

India needs to improve its digital infrastructure of education as a smart classroom, sufficient and stable supply of electricity, and internet connectivity in rural and remote areas. 80 percent of students are both economically poor and sociallyeducationally backward and live in rural and urban-peripheral areas. Families of students of this huge population cannot afford expensive education in big cities. The dropout problem in higher education is the results of the increasing cost of education, low and unstable income sources of parents, insufficient government-funded educational institutions, and the socio-geographical gap between students and places of higher educational institutions. The backlog of reserved categories in the teaching and non-teaching posts in education is another major problem in the present time. While 40 percent of total sanctioned posts are running vacant in higher educational institutions for long time, even the condition of school education is not much different in India. India needs a more socialist education policy and campus education system rather than corporatization and digitalization of education.
