"Creating Financial Literacy amongst Non-Commerce Students” – A Study on the Intellectual Curiosity of NEP Batch Undergraduate Students of Mangalore University, DK, Karnataka

'Intellectual curiosity' is built in a child right from childhood. As a toddler, his/her parents should create an environment of being curious to learn something new, as he starts growing, family and neighbours and when he moves to school and college, his teachers. But teachers need to be backed up by a good education system, which systematically helps to build knowledge by bridging the gap between what is known and what has to be known by the student to survive in this modern era. The rising inflation is an alarm that an individual may find it difficult to live their dream life on just a mere salary or only one source of Income. He needs to find another source of income, which is nothing but investing in different avenues of investment. It is observed that most of the students discontinue their education after graduation. A student from a commerce or Business administration background will have little interest or knowledge about the different avenues of investment, including investing in mutual funds and the stock market. But what about the non-commerce background students? Thanks to the National Education Policy (NEP), which has framed a syllabus in which it is mandatory to gain knowledge about Financial Investments for all undergraduates. Thus, in this paper, an attempt has been made to assess the success rate of NEP in creating financial literacy among non-commerce students of Mangalore University.