IIT Bombay's Early-Exit Option Witnesses 15 Students Opting For BSc Degree; Check Details Here

New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) will provide a three-year engineering program with an option to graduate with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) starting in 2023. 

15 students last year successfully completed their BSc programs after opting to leave after their third year. The move intends to provide a dignified exit for students who are unable to complete the four-year BTech degree curriculum.

The IIT council agreed to launch this option so that students who are unable to complete the four-year BTech degree course will be able to have a dignified exit with the new degree, according to Professor S Sudarshan, deputy director of IIT Bombay.

At a press conference held at the Press Club in Mumbai to commemorate "Three Years of the National Education Policy 2020," Sudharshan was addressing.

Additionally present were Ketan Patel, joint director of the ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship, Sona Seth, deputy commissioner of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Mumbai Region, and Professor Avinash Mahajan, dean of academic programs at the IIT.

According to Sudarshan, who went on to elaborate on how the NEP has paved the way for flexibility in higher education, core courses and a number of electives that are comparable to the number of core courses at IIT-B provide students that option. 

"Students therefore have a lot of leeway in selecting courses from different areas. In addition to flexibility, IIT has promoted new disciplines outside of the traditional boundaries envisioned by the NEP, such as the School of Management, School for Entrepreneurship, and others," he said.

Professor Mahajan stated the following on early graduation: "Students must earn 160 credits over the course of three years in order to receive a BSc degree. Any student who can finish at least 30 credits in their core subject will be awarded a specialist degree in that field. A student who chose the exit option will receive a BSc in computer science if they earn a total of 160 credits, of which 30 are in computer science.

Additionally, IIT-B requires that students select one humanities subject for each year of study. "I also decided to give credit for the extra classes that IIT is conducting for students, who are weak in English for the first year, to reduce academic pressure on students by reducing it to one subject per semester in the first year," Sudarshan continued.

Kendriya Vidyalaya To Start Pre-Primary Classes

According to Sona Seth, deputy commissioner of the Mumbai Region of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS), "The NEP is a solid document that keeps up with the newest pedagogy. Balvatika (pre-primary classes) were introduced by KVS in accordance with NEP 2020, and as a result, 49 KVs received permanent structures as part of a pilot programme in the school year 2022–2023. Additionally, 5,477 children were enrolled in all three Balvatika classes. Twenty new Balvatika will be launched statewide in the upcoming academic year.

She continued by saying that starting with the academic year 2022–2023 in all KVS, the age of entrance for Class I was changed to 6+ years in order to implement the NEP.

"The National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN) Bharat initiative is being tracked by recording the same through a web-application linked to the Personal Information Management System (PIMS). Students in classes 1, 2, and 3 are being tracked in terms of their attainment of Lakshyas," Seth said.

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