Research and teaching balance – UGC NET Question

NEP 2020 envisions research intensive and teaching intensive universities, but both types are expected to value inquiry. It states that teaching should be enriched by research and that students should be exposed to research culture. Integration of research and teaching improves curriculum relevance and innovation.

Option A:
Saying universities should only teach without research contradicts the policy’s stress on research universities and NRF’s role.

Option B:
This option expresses the idea that students benefit when they study in institutions where research is actively pursued. It follows NEP’s emphasis on linking knowledge creation with dissemination, so it is correct.

Option C:
Suggesting universities do only research with no teaching ignores their educational mission and is not proposed in NEP 2020.

Option D:
Claiming research is unimportant for quality conflicts with the creation of NRF and the promotion of research intensive universities in the policy.