Implementation of national education policy-2020 in agricultural engineering discipline

The New Education Policy-2020 (NEP-2020) of India provides an opportunity and has opened the gateway to introduce various changes in the education system, including higher agriculture education. Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) constituted a national level Committee of Vice-chancellors to develop an implementation strategy to comply with various provisions of NEP-2020. The committee was asked to assess and recommend requirements of higher agricultural education in the present set of education/research/extension and suggestion for consideration of agricultural education in the categories of Medical and Legal Education under NEP- 2020. In this direction, several meetings and consultations were held to deliberate with various stakeholders. The draft report was also circulated to all the vice-chancellors and Chief Secretaries for their input and comments.