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To boost the expansion of the Indian education sector, the present government decided to revamp it by introducing a comprehensive National Education Policy 2020. This is as an essential step of the Prime Minister to take proper advantage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and take India to new heights. The national education policy, currently launched, focuses on India-centric education system in 2020, which will contribute to making our nation again a world guru by providing all high quality education. The National Policy on Education (NEP) 2020 recommends innovative major changes in teacher education. The recommendations on teacher education are given in Chapter Fifteen of NEP-2020 which gives details of policy changes in education. It is divided into eleven sub-points. The biggest objective of the NEP is to "ensure that teachers are given the highest quality training in the development of study material, teaching and skills and introduce the teacher education system into multidisciplinary faculties and universities, and the establishment of a 4-year integrated B.Ed. offered by such multidisciplinary HIs, by the year 2030, will become the minimum degree qualification for school teachers" (NEP2020- page 42: 15.5). A more in-depth analysis of NEP 2020, it can be said that it is a curious combination of opportunities and it is a proper document to change the state of teacher education. The current paper seeks to examine the National Education Policy 2020 in the context of paradigm changes in terms of opportunities and challenges in the teacher education sector