Last Updated on April 7, 2022 at 7:36 pm
Jammu and Kashmir will fully implement the National Education Policy (NEP) from the current academic session. It will also move to a uniform academic calendar which in turn will be synchronized the national academic calendar.
In addition, the four year undergraduate programme as per UGC guidelines would be introduced in colleges of J&K from the current academic session.
This was unanimously agreed to in a meeting chaired by Chief Secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta, to review and discuss modalities for implementation of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 in Jammu and Kashmir. The meeting also decided that the centralized admission test CUET would be mandatory for all admissions in J&K from the next academic session.
In addition, all higher education institutions would move towards progressively greater autonomy.The meeting had a thorough exchange of ideas on steps to be taken for implementation of this ambitious nationwide policy in J&K.
The meeting was attended by Principal Secretary, Higher Education, Rohit Kansal, Principal Secretary, School Education, Sh. B. K. Singh, Vice Chancellors of various universities of the UT and other senior officers of Higher Education and School Education Department.Dr Mehta said that the current year would be a transformational year with respect to the education system and important changes would be required in the process.
He said that the UT will implement the NEP from April 1 and sought suggestions from VCs about the modalities to be adopted for making a smooth transition in its implementation. The VCs unanimously suggested the need to synchronize the academic calendar with the national academic calendar and move to a single calendar. They said that adoption of uniform calendar system would not only enable the students from JK to compete with students in rest of the country for admissions to top institutions but also save valuable time.
