Four years undergraduate (fyug) programme proposed by nep-2020: a gateway of doctoral research

According to National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020) students will join the initial research programme at the fourth year of undergraduate course. This study focused on the paradigm of higher education as per NEP 2020, the idea of research integration with undergraduate course as per NEP2020, the structure of research credit in four year undergraduate course, and a step forward for quality research in higher education (Doctoral degree. UGC recommended a four year undergraduate course in all the degree colleges and universities. Students can choose their research stream in their fourth year (7th semester). Student can enrol themselves in research for the last two semester (7th and 8th semester), if they scored 75% or higher in their first six semester or 7.5 CGPA. This four year undergraduate honours course with research will initially prepare the students for conducting good research project. This programme will open up a new window of doctoral research to the modern generation learners at the undergraduate level. This paper will give a direction towards the research to improve the quality of research in multidisciplinary environment. Moreover it fulfils the goal of better society and country economy through the quality education with research at the undergraduate level. Integrated research programme provide qualified and expert researcher to the teaching-learning arena. Students will be knowledgeable, expertise and skilled in research in multi-disciplinary environment. This will save time and energy to the students as they can directly join the Ph.D. programme after completion of undergraduate course with research.