With the first phase of National Education Policy being implemented, students pursuing higher education can now exit the course midway carrying a certificate for the time they spent, come back after a stipulated time and continue with the mother course. The NEP has provided students the facility of multiple entries and exits by following some criterion. The students can utilise the time period between the exit and entry to do a job, or even to do some other course. The Maharashtra Government is implementing NEP aggressively. State Minister for Higher and Technical Education Chandrakant Patil convened a meeting where he asked the universities to start the implementation process by April 30, 2023. The Ministry had constituted a steering committee that submitted the report recommending certain changes in the guidelines of NEP. The guidelines focus on the syllabus and credit system. Students who successfully complete the required credit requirements and leave college or university at the end of the first year will receive an Under Graduate Certificate. Those who choose to leave after two years will be awarded a diploma, while those who finish three years and earn the necessary credits will be given an undergraduate degree by the competent authorities. Students may also undertake a fourth year of study under the new curriculum, after which a UG Degree with Honours / Research will be suitably granted. There will be a 4-year degree programme from academic year 2023-24 in Arts, Commerce, Science stream. Engineering Technology, Pharmacy, Law and Teaching Streams like B.Ed etc have been excluded from the scheme.