the initial focus will be on nonfinancial reforms in higher education the academic bank of credit will come by december amit khare higher education secretary told toi excerpts what is the implementation plan of the nep 2020 reformsthe policy aims at transformational changes and not incremental the school system is changing from 102 to 5334 similarly higher education is totally transformed with multiple entry and exit with multidisciplinary courses and academic bank of creditthe phasewise implementation of the nep will start from this month as stated on the cabinet note with more than 100 recommendations in higher education the academic bank of credit will come by december 2020 multiple entry and exit will also come from the 202021 session the institutions of eminence will start early and subsequently be extended to central universities and willing state universitiesthe recommendations are being divided into nonfinancial and financial reforms and the former will be started early many of the reforms do not require funds but a new way of thinking for example multiple entry and exit is not related to funding but to modular courses and credit bank and so it can be donethere will be an implementation committee to continuously monitor and the reports will be placed before cabe regularlyare all reforms to be implemented nationally straight awayin many cases we will run pilot projects before taking it nationally so as to ensure students are not adversely affected for example the academic bank of credit will be tried first in some of the iits and central universities so that the system is 100 securedwhen is the fouryear degree programme to be rolled outioes will be encouraged to start immediately in 202021 as some of them have already signed the mou and they can have the multiple entry and exit because by that time the credit bank would have become operational central universities who are ready can join by 2021 and latest by 2022will the credit bank also facilitate credit transfer between universitiesthe present system does not permit intertransferability of credit between the universitiesin the new policy a fixed period will be given between three to five years within which one can come back and utilise the creditsthe mous between the universities through the association of indian universities will have this arrangement that those who join this new system take each others credithow will the proposed common entrance test work outthe iits nits and state engineering colleges used to have separate entrance exams with jee the exams became common but jee is voluntary for the state engineering colleges it will be the same where all central universities will have common entrance tests the state universities will have the liberty they can either join immediately or later and those states who join the common entrance test and their languages will also be introduced if state universities of assam join then the test will also be delivered in assamese the details will be issued by februarymarch 2021 and the first test will be sometime in