NEP student support in HEIs – UGC NET Question

NEP 2020 highlights that inclusive higher education requires mentoring, remedial academic support, adequate hostels and targeted scholarships, especially for disadvantaged and first-generation learners, to reduce dropout and ensure success.

Option A:
Refusing mentoring or counselling would leave many students—particularly those from non-traditional backgrounds—without guidance.

Option B:
This option is correct because it brings together the financial, academic and psychosocial support measures that the policy recommends.

Option C:
Denying hostel facilities to rural and female students would increase inequity, whereas NEP calls for expanding such facilities.

Option D:
Charging extra fees from socio-economically disadvantaged groups contradicts the idea of targeted financial support.