Strategizing Faster and Wholesome Implementation of NEP-2020 the Way Forward for Transforming India into a Knowledge Superpower

Prof. Aithal stated that already many Universities have started implementing NEP and the Srinivas university has introduced the NEp based curriculum in 2021-22 as a challenging Academic endeavour. He mentioned that the process of introducing NP from the top instead from the bottom as a means to reverse the process for better result. Humanities and Social Sciences haveprioritised to engulf NEP matrix before Engineering programmes have gone for such transformation. He insisted at NEP policies need to be utilised to improve the quality of life in the society before it becomes obsolete and irrelevant. He highlighted one of the objectives
of NEP-2020 is to provide high-quality, lowcost education to everyone with an expectation of holistic & research-oriented progress. There is an urge to formulize strategies by involving technology in implementing NEP at school and university levels. He stated that transformation in Indian HE could be conceived by Indianising the educational system by internalizing it by wording out'zero'as 'zero' replacing the Westernized 'o'. The methodology adopted would call on the transformation from the teacher centred learning into student-centric class-room learning which involves the following paradigm shifts
From Traditional classroom to Experiential learning
From Subject oriented to Industry oriented
From Knowledge driven to skiil driven and new knowledge creation
From Theory based sflabus to project based syllabus
From Lesson driven to Research driven
From Mono-disciplinary to Multi-disciplinary
From STEM to STEAM (Art, culture & design), STEAM is the crux of I'{EP From Menrorization based evaluation to Competency based evaluation
From Degree Completion fbcus to Employability & Entrepreneur ability focus
From Campus Based to Ubiquitous
From Monopoly Closed Systern to Competitive Open System