UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

NEP 2020 describes the current system as having too many small colleges with limited resources and capacity. It proposes consolidating and upgrading institutions so that most students study in well resourced multidisciplinary universities or degree granting colleges. Affiliation is to be gradually ended.

Option A:
Keeping the present fragmented structure would continue quality and governance problems identified in the policy. NEP seeks structural change, so this option is not aligned.

Option B:
This option correctly reflects the movement towards large, vibrant multidisciplinary campuses and away from small, weakly governed affiliated colleges. It summarises a central structural reform of NEP 2020 and is therefore the correct answer.

Option C:
Shrinking universities to a few departments would go against the multidisciplinary vision and reduce student choice and research breadth.

Option D:
Closing rural colleges contradicts NEP’s focus on access and inclusion, especially for students outside cities.

NEP 2020 suggests that very small, fragmented colleges should be merged or expanded into larger multidisciplinary institutions, typically with 3000 or more students, to ensure viability, diverse offerings and robust academic communities.

Option A:
Maintaining many very small colleges makes it difficult to provide adequate faculty, facilities and programme diversity, which the policy seeks to change.

Option B:
This option describes the preferred model of reasonably large, multidisciplinary institutions outlined in NEP.

Option C:
Deliberately restricting institutions to fewer than 500 students would limit access and contradict the expansion goals of the policy.

Option D:
The policy does not argue for mega universities with over one lakh students as the only model; it prefers moderate but strong institutional sizes.