Over the last few decades, higher education in India has undergone significant transformation. Several factors are to bear responsibility for this, including rising demand for higher education as a result of population growth, improvements in school education, an increase in aspirations, and the changing structure of the Indian economy, which necessitates new and diverse skills. These transformations have an impact on the National Education Policies that shape the structures and processes of the education system. Privatization's impact on higher education in liberalising India has transpired in the presence of a centralised regulatory regime. This phenomenon contradicts explanations that see privatisation as a direct result of the state's withdrawal from higher education; rather, it calls into question the notion that liberalisation has little impact on state funding of higher education. The impact of liberalisation and private interests on the education sector and national education policies is not an exception here. Thus, the current study seeks to comprehend the impact of private interest on India's higher education system in general, and the National Education Policy 2020 in particular.

Higher Education, National Education Policy, Privatisation, Economic Reforms, GATS, WTO.