Even as welcoming the Government of India’s (GoI’s) National Education Policy (NEP),  released  on July 29, for reiterating GoI’s five decades old  commitment  to spend 6% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on education and presenting a “more humanistic” vision of education with special emphasis on mother tongue, a high-profile NGO, Oxfam India, has objected to what it has called “subtle shift towards market-based approach towards education.”