PRAYAGRAJ, July 23 -- In a significant development, the Academic Council of the University of Allahabad, chaired by vice-chancellor Prof Sangita Srivastava convened a meeting at the Senate Hall's North Hall and formally approved the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP)-2020 across all undergraduate programmes, on Tuesday.

With this move, all undergraduate programmes across the faculties of Arts, Science, and Commerce will now follow a new structure based on NEP-2020. The university will introduce a 4-year Honours with Research Degree Programme spread across eight semesters for new students taking admissions from this new session while old students would continue to pursue their UG courses in the earlier format itself, sa...