Initiatives, as per NEP-2020, to foster languages, arts, and culture lays greater emphasis on music, arts, and crafts. Accordingly, NEP-2020 suggests:

• Hiring outstanding local artists, writers, craftspersons, and other experts as master instructors in various subjects of local expertise;
• Accurate addition of traditional Indian knowledge including tribal and other local knowledge throughout the curriculum, across humanities, sciences, arts, crafts, and sports, wherever relevant; and
• Much greater flexibility in the curriculum, especially in secondary schools and in higher education.

These efforts will enable the students to choose the ideal balance among courses for themselves to develop their own creative, artistic, cultural, and academic paths.

Despite of being experts in their respective fields, majority of the faculty in the UGC-recognized institutions are not very familiar with IKS.

To incorporate IKS in the higher education curriculum UGC has taken the following initiatives:

• The UGC has constituted a Committee of Experts to formulate guidelines on effective teacher-training and orientation in IKS. These ideas will also be reflected in various induction and refresher courses.
• Every UG and PG programme will have a mandated or credited part of the IKS component as a set of courses. UGC has been preparing “Guidelines for incorporating Indian Knowledge Systems in Higher Education Curricula” in this regard.
• In addition, UGC has been working out modalities for the possible inclusion of Indian Knowledge System as a subject in UGC NET.
• Establishment and functioning of the Indian Knowledge Systems Division of MoE at AICTE.
• 13 IKS Centres opened in HEIs and 36 Research Project sanctioned
• AICTE Technical Book Writing and Translation:12 Indian languages
• Technical Book Writing being undertaken in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada — 216 Books including books on IKS
• Identification of 128 Online MOOCs and their conversion in Regional Languages.
• AICTE has approved 20 Institutes in nine different States to conduct Engineering and Technology Courses in five Regional Languages (Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu). Twenty-four institutions have been granted approval for PG courses in Defence Technology in collaboration with DRDO.
• Common University Entrance Test in 13 Languages.
• JEE (Mains) and NEET (UG) conducted in English and 12 Indian Languages.
• Engineering Courses in six Indian Languages in 20 Engineering Colleges across 10 States from 2021-22 (Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, and Bengali
• AICTE’s AI Auto Translation Tool/Portal: Translation into Indian languages.