LUCKNOW: National Post Graduate College (NPGC) has decided not to implement the four-year course curriculum for under graduation (UG), as recommended in the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, in the ongoing 2021-22 academic session due to lack of required infrastructure and teachers.
Affiliated with Lucknow University (LU), it is the only LU college with autonomous status. LU has designed a four-year curriculum as per NEP for the UG and has implemented it from the 2021-22 sessions.
Under the new system, UG will be of four years, instead of three, with multiple entry and exit options during the course period. Besides provisions of interdepartmental studies and research, it also offers vocational subjects.
LU has also directed all its associated colleges to implement the curriculum. Most of the colleges have agreed to introduce NEP from this session itself despite lack of teachers and infrastructure. However, since NPGC has an autonomous status, it has decided to implement the new system from the 2022-23 session after fulfilling all the requirements.
This means that students who have taken admission in UG at LU and its associated colleges in the 2021-22 sessions will have to study the course for four years, but those in NPGC will continue with a three-year traditional course. Talking to TOI, principal NPGC Devendra Kumar Singh, who has taken charge recently, said, "This year the session has already been delayed due to the pandemic and hence we have decided not to implement NE in haste." "Besides lack of infrastructure and staff, we do not have a National Cadet Corps (NCC) unit which is a must in a four-year curriculum. Further, we need to upgrade our computer lab for vocational courses such as e-commerce, banking, forensic science and digital marketing," he added.
"When introduced with full facilities, the new curriculum will serve the purpose better We will also revise syllabi for major and minor subjects in various subjects keeping in mind students' interest," he said.
