Lifelong learning is a much-used and dynamic term in recent global and national policy arenas. It has gained a multidimensional nature within and beyond the education policy domain. In India, the perception is changing too, which is different from its traditional understandings of lifelong learning. This modern conceptualization is highly interlinked with the concepts of knowledge economy, knowledge society and globalization. The nature of national level policy formulation has also undergone a sea change and huge efforts are being made to make it nationally realistic yet globally viable. This...