Earlier, the J&K Government constituted a high level committee of academicians to prepare a uniform Academic Calendar in sync with the National Academic Calendar (NAC) for all the Universities and Higher Education Institutions of J&K UT.
The initiative was taken days after the government decided to fully implement the National Education Policy (NEP)-2020 from the current academic session and shift to a uniform academic calendar which will be synchronised to the National Academic Calendar.
The principal secretary Higher Education Department (HED) Rohit Kansal earlier constituted a committee comprising Director Colleges, Dean Academic Affairs (DAA) of Jammu University, Kashmir University and Cluster University of Srinagar and Jammu as well.
Meanwhile, the Director Colleges J&K has shared the proposed uniform academic calendar with the Vice Chancellors of J&K Universities and the Principals of the autonomous colleges as well.
As per the proposed uniform academic calendar, the admission process in Colleges of Kashmir division as well as winter and summer zone colleges of Jammu division will start from June 1 to July 25.
