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The National Education Policy 2020 is a visionary and comprehensive document that aims to improve the access, equity and quality of education in India. The policy emphasizes the need for a multidisciplinary approach in teacher training and emphasizing not only subject expertise but also a broader understanding of child psychology, pedagogical innovations, and socio-emotional learning. This study aims to find out the teacher educators' perception towards teacher education programme suggested by NEP 2020 with regards to their gender, qualification and experience. In this present study investigators have employed a descriptive survey method to explore the teacher educators' perception towards teacher education programme suggested by NEP 2020. The population of proposed study constituted all the secondary level teacher educators of Odisha. From that investigators selected 5 secondary level Teacher Education Institutions randomly and from each investigators select 10 teacher educators randomly. Data were analyzed by using mean, Standard Deviation and t-test. This study found that most of the teacher educators have balanced perception towards Teacher Education Programme. There exists no significant difference between male and female teacher educators' perception, high qualified and low qualified teacher educators' perception, and high experienced and less experienced teacher educators' perception towards Teacher Education Programme suggested by NEP 2020.