How IIT Delhi moved towards implementation of NEP 2020

After the approval of the National Education Policy by the Centre in July 2020, the India Institute of Technology, Delhi, has taken a proactive stance towards assessing the proposed guidelines and exploring appropriate measures for the implementation of the policy's recommendations. Currently, feedback on the committee’s report is being sought from all academic units for further deliberations.” IIT Takes several initiatives Prof Rao also added that the institute has recently taken several initiatives to form new schools, departments, and centres at the Institute with multi-disciplinary teaching and research programs, which dovetail nicely with the broad objectives of the NEP 2020. The Institute also has in recent years started a School of Public Policy, School of Artificial Intelligence, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Department of Design, which is all highly interdisciplinary in nature. Two new BTech programs of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature namely BTech in Engineering and Computational Mechanics, and BTech in Materials Engineering were started in the Academic Year 2020-21. IIT Delhi is also starting two new multidisciplinary programs at the PG level, i.e., MTech in Electric Mobility, and Master of Public Policy from 2021-22.