The glory of our ancient and oldest learning centres at Taxashila and Nalanda Universities flourished between Fifth Century BC and Twelfth Century AD. The first three modern Universities were established in 1857 as Calcutta, Bombay and Madras Universities under the aegis of the British Rule. The new National Education Policy (NEP) is the continium of our education policies of the post Independence India measuring upto educational standards of the developed countries.

The Bangalore University has been in the forefront of implementing the NEP program during this last four years. It has been the FIRST university in the country to introduce the four years undergraduate program BA (Honours), B.Sc (Honours) from the academic year 2021-2022.

The University took up the implementation of NEP earnestly training its teachers from awareness to policy, concepts, curriculum and syllabus framing both at the university departments as well as its constituent and affiliated colleges in addition to mentoring private and deemed universities in Bangalore. The University in coordination with UGC, AICTE, National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and Government of Karnataka conducted hundred of programmes in effective Implementation of the NEP 2020. The Bangalore University participated as lead organisation in the conference graced by the President of India and the Governors of the states in August 2021. A workshop of south Indian Vice Chancellors was Organised in Bangalore at NAAC during December 2021. The Government of Karnataka under Higher Education Council were able to prepare curriculum and syllabus in a record time.

Online teaching-learning process, digitalisation of examination system, admissions and administrative systems in the rapidly changing world of digital revolution of Anytime, Anywhere, Anyone, AnyMedia, AnyLanguage, Anydevice, AnySubject, AnyCourse, AnyDiscipline, AnyAmount, AnySpeed took the world by storm in the times of the onslaught of COVID-19 between 2020-2021.

This book is useful to all those who have been involved in implementing NEP-2020 in the last two years, viz, Vice-Chancellors, educationists, private universities, autonomous colleges, deemed universities, professors and NGOs, across the country.