West Bengal govt to introduce 4-year UG honours courses in HEIs from AY 2023-24

The higher education department announced that "the decision has been taken after holding talks with all stakeholders and based on the recommendation of a state-appointed expert panel which had suggested rolling out a four-year UG course from the 2023-24 academic year."

West Bengal govt to introduce 4-year UG honours courses in HEIs from AY 2023-24

West Bengal government has announced the introduction of a four-year honours course at the undergraduate (UG) level in all government and state-aided higher educational institutions from this academic year onwards. The higher education department announced that "the decision has been taken after holding talks with all stakeholders and based on the recommendation of a state-appointed expert panel which had suggested rolling out a four-year UG course from the 2023-24 academic year."

"After consulting various stakeholders and keeping the future of students in mind, it has been decided by the competent authority in the State Government that the four-year UG level programme will be introduced in all Government/ Government aided/ Government sponsored Higher Education Institutions from the academic session 2023-2024.....They shall be awarded degrees in accordance with the UGC national curriculum and credit framework for UG-level programmes," the statement said.

"This will be in place of the existing three-year course. Tracing the developments preceding the introduction of the four-year UG course," the statement said.

"The matter of introducing 4 years UG level programme in different state government/ state aided/sponsored Higher Education Institutions has been under consideration of the state government for some time. The state government constituted an expert Committee to examine the matter and submit a recommendation regarding the implementation of the National Curriculum and Credit Framework (NCCF), dated 31.01.2023," the statement said.

“The Expert Committee has recommended the implementation of NCCF for 4 years UG courses from the academic year 2023-2024 in all government/aided/sponsored higher educational Institutions in the state through optimum utilisation of existing resource or self-mobilisation of additional resources, pending receipt of additional financial assistance," it added. 

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