West Bengal adopts four-year undergraduate programme recommended by NEP

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Left Front government which had stopped English education from Standard-I in West Bengal, the state government has adopted a small part of the National Education Policy (NEP)--which is a four-year undergraduate programme, to ensure good future of the students, education minister Bratya Basu said on Tuesday. “The state does not agree with NEP as a whole and thus has not followed it completely.

In a bid to avoid the past mistakes of the Left Front which stopped English education from Class-I in government schools, the Bengal government has taken up a four-year degree programme, which has been introduced nationally as part of NEP," Basu said today. “I have mentioned on the floor of the House while replying to a question, about whether we have adopted NEP or not.

We made it clear that we have not adopted NEP but we have taken only a small part of the NEP-which is a four-year degree course. It is not taking up NEP entirely.

It involves the future of seven lakh students and they will face problems in case of national-level competition,” Basu said. “There are several other issues related to the centralisation of universities, a particular format of education.” “Had we not introduced a four-year degree course, which is a part of NEP, it would have been a repetition of the Left Front government’s decision to stop English education in the state.

West Bengal Chief Mamata Banerjee does not want seven lakh students to get into trouble due to different systems in the state,” Basu mentioned, speaking to media persons. The state government recently announced that the four-year undergraduate level programme will be introduced in all government/ government aided/government-sponsored higher education institutions from the academic session