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3. Scope:

The undergraduate curriculums are diverse and have varied subjects to be covered to meet the
needs of the programs. It is not possible to have a single prescription for all the various UG and PG
programs in the country. The primary purpose of the guidelines is to help the institutions come up
with courses that will introduce the students to all aspects of IKS which are related to their fields of
study and to promote interest in knowing and exploring more. A 10-year horizon is envisioned for
the application of these guidelines, along with a revision and modification after five years to meet the
evolving needs.

2.1 General Guidelines:
1. In view of the importance accorded in the NEP 2020 to rooting our curricula
and pedagogy in the Indian context and in the corpus of Indian Knowledge
System, every student enrolled in a UG or PG programme should be encouraged

to take credit courses in IKS amounting in all to at least five per cent of the total
mandated credits. It is envisioned that the interested students studying in UG
and PG courses may be allowed to take a larger fraction of the total mandated
credits in the fields of IKS.
2. At least 50% of the credits apportioned to the IKS should be related to the major
discipline and should be accounted for the credits assigned to the major discipline.

3. Special care should be taken to ensure that the course materials for these IKS
courses are based on authentic sources—such as source texts, historical accounts,
inscriptions and other records, material and other evidence, and also rigorous
sociological records of current practices of different communities.

4. The continuity of the Indian Knowledge Traditions from ancient times up to
the relatively recent period of the eighteenth or nineteenth century must be
emphasized in the design of the course content.
5. Efforts must be made to highlight the characteristic features such as the
objectives, methodology and core concepts of the Indian Knowledge Traditions,
which distinguish them from other Knowledge Traditions of the world.

6. Wherever possible, contemporary applications of the Indian Knowledge
Traditions may be indicated.
7. The medium of instruction for the IKS courses could be any of the Indian
languages which have been approved as a medium of instruction in higher
education, apart from English and Sanskrit.

8. All the technical terms and citations from the Sanskrit sources should be given in
the Devanagari script as well as in English transliteration for any course materials
prepared in English.

2.2 Guidelines for IKS Courses in UG Programmes:

1. All the students who are enrolled in the four-year UG programmes should be
encouraged to take an adequate number of courses in IKS so that the total credits

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