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 <p>JAMMU: Advisor to the Lt Governor Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar today chaired a meeting to review the roadmap for the implementation of the National Education Policy-2020 in Jammu and Kashmir.</p>
 <p>The meeting was attended by Senior Secretary for Higher Education Rohit Kansal, Vice Chancellors from several UT universities and other senior officials from the Department of Higher Education.</p>
 <p>The Vice Foreign Ministers had a detailed exchange of ideas on the steps for the implementation of this ambitious national policy in J&K.</p>
 <p>The meeting was held as a follow-up to previous meetings held on the same topic that were chaired by the Foreign Minister and Deputy Governor, Manoj Sinha.</p>
 <p>The adviser reviewed the actions taken on the decisions made at previous meetings held in this regard, as well as taking stock of the state of formation of 6 Boards of Studies, each of which will be established at the University of Jammu and the University of Kashmir. .  He also evaluated progress in the formation of curriculum committees.</p>
 <p>Advisor Bhatnagar said that the process of implementing the policy would be gradual in nature and postulated that immediate action should be taken in this regard.  He called for speeding up the creation of study plans for first-year studies of different courses and creating a general framework for all courses, throughout the duration of the course.</p>
 <p>Addressing the meeting, the adviser said that NEP-2020 is supposed to be flexible in its approach, adding that "nothing is set in stone" regarding its implementation.  Autonomy and freedom are its fundamental pillars, said the Minister.</p>
 <p>Innovation, incubation and research will gain momentum in the coming educational reforms, the Advisor said, while acknowledging the role of universities in driving research at UT.</p>
 <p>Rohit Kansal commented that with the introduction of NEP-2020, the courses would become modular and tentatively provide various entry and exit points in them.  He also assumed the possibility of the need to update the curricula regularly during the following years.</p>
 <p>The pace of implementation of NEP-2020 may vary between institutions due to various challenges, but we will certainly continue its implementation with the next academic session, said the Principal Secretary.</p>
 <p>Rohit Kansal informed the meeting that in accordance with decisions made at previous meetings, all new admissions for undergraduate courses would be for a period of 4 years initially with provision for capstone studies in subsequent years of the course.  In that sense, he said, courses may need to be reoriented.</p>
 <p>The Principal Secretary also shed light on the introduction of the Bachelor of Vocational Education course under the policy.  He reported that 17 government graduate colleges would start taking admissions for the course for the 2022-23 session.  In addition, 53 and 72 undergraduate universities would start teaching the course from the 2023-24 and 2024-25 academic sessions onwards, respectively.  Corresponding Sectoral Skills Councils have also been identified, he said.</p>
 <p>Speaking about fostering innovation at J&K, the Principal Secretary said: 'Universities need to become a hub for innovation and in this regard the UT government would host a startup competition in collaboration with IIT Jammu.  'Over the years, the government would allocate more resources to support this type of competition to encourage innovation,' he said.</p>
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