CONCEPT NOTE
“NEP-2020: Implementation, Challenges and Way Forward”
19th-21st December 2025
Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi
Delhi
The education system of a country constitutes the foundation of human resources, thus contributing to human capital. Against this backdrop, the National Education Policy 2020 was introduced at the Central and State Universities. The National Education Policy 2020 marked a phenomenal breakthrough by introducing a comprehensive framework for reforming India’s education system through structural, curricular, managerial, and financial transformations. Its effective implementation demands coordination and support among the central/state governments, funding agencies, and higher educational institutions. The reforms envisaged under NEP 2020 include transforming undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, introducing multidisciplinary and flexible curricula, promoting outcome-based learning, ensuring quality assurance and internationalisation, granting degree-awarding status to autonomous colleges and strengthening financial and institutional frameworks.
The education system is the prerequisite for achieving a more productive, efficient and resilient human resource that can encounter any potential technological diffusion or interventions and at the same time resilient enough for any socio-economic transitions that impact employment. NEP 2020 has remarkable constructive interventions that have the potential to reshape the education system by providing promising and productive skill enhancement. The National Education Policy (NEP) is largely on the lines of innovation, research and development. However, the practical implications of NEP should be considered and strategically planned, which involves addressing the challenges of diversity across states and cultures. For efficiency, a comprehensive and uniform structure of the education regime is needed that takes care of all aspects of course, structure, innovation, research and development, a blend of uniqueness and uniformity.
Further, NEP incorporates experiential learning, with the cultural base across states and different parts of Bharat. Therefore, education can serve as a medium or an instrument in catering to the diversity across the nation. NEP 2020 should be envisaged as a tool to achieve the Vision of Viksit Bharat 2047. The challenges associated with NEP 2020 pertain to creating opportunities for the youth and restructuring the curriculum to align with industry requirements, so that the next generation is employable and can be self-reliant. A novel opportunity for industry-academia connect, as emphasised in NEP-2020, is a remarkable opportunity for innovation and creativity.
A term of five years has passed since the announcement of the policy; it is both timely and necessary to deliberate, discuss and assess the extent of implementation and challenges encountered at the national, state and institutional levels. It is highly imperative to evaluate and assess the policy at the undergraduate level in Delhi University, where the first round of implementation of NEP 2020 will be accomplished in 2026. The four-year undergraduate curriculum undertaken by NEP 2020 can be considered a learning module, a template or a roadmap for achieving the vision of Viksit Bharat, 2047.
The first-hand experience of implementation and challenges would be deliberated and shared by the experts and the resource persons who have not only been the pioneers in bringing forth a breakthrough in the Education System through the policy, but also were instrumental in implementing the policy at the ground level. The Conference aims to provide a platform to all the academic leaders and experts in the field who have laid the foundation of NEP 2020, and were instrumental in implementing NEP-2020 in Institutes of Higher Education, and also the resource persons who have shaped the structure of NEP 2020. The sessions of the conference would revolve around the challenges related to the implementation of NEP 2020, as well as critical discussions to further improve the structure of NEP 2020. The significant highlights and outcomes of the conference will constitute some of the crucial recommendations for future policy reforms to be undertaken.
Therefore, to achieve the above objectives, Daulat Ram College, University
of Delhi, in collaboration with ICSSR, is organising a three-day National Conference on “NEP-2020: Implementation, Challenges and Way Forward” from 19th-21st December 2025 at Daulat Ram College, Delhi University, Delhi.
Conference Theme and Sub-Themes
Main Theme:
“NEP-2020: Implementation, Challenges and Way Forward”
Sub-Themes:
NEP-2020: Its Implementation and Challenges
Challenges and opportunities in implementing NEP-2020: Revisiting Undergraduate programmes.
Institutional experiences and insights into the NEP implementation.
Overcoming Infrastructural and Resource Constraints.
Quality Faculty Development and Teacher-Student Ratio, maintaining the Choice-Based Credit System.
NEP-2020: Its Implications on Vision Viksit Bharat 2047
Implications on research, teaching, learning and institutional governance.
The outcome-based UG, PG and research programmes to foster a conducive environment for a self-reliant economy.
Potential for industry-academia connect.
NEP - 2020: A Way Forward
Rethinking and redesigning courses to provide expertise in the selected discipline or vocational skills.
Networking with national and global institutions for achieving sustainable development goals.
Internationalisation of Curriculum.
PARTICIPANTS
Principals of colleges, heads of higher education institutions, policymakers, researchers, and eminent scholars are invited to participate in the conference.
HOST INSTITUTION
Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi.
VENUE
Daulat Ram College, North Campus, University of Delhi, Delhi