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The National Educational Policy (NEP) of 2020 is the first of its kind to focus on the holistic development of an individual along with vocational education which marks a changing point in the Indian education system. This paper studied the awareness levels of students pursuing post graduate courses in the arts and the science disciplines about NEP 2020, and tries to analyze what factors shape their awareness. A structured questionnaire was designed to capture the various dimensions of the respondents' awareness which included general awareness, equity, inclusion, research, innovation, technology integration. Out of the 200 students sampled from HNB Garhwal University, a quantitative approach was taken to analyze their level of awareness towards NEP 2020 policies. The results differ for students that take postgraduate courses as they seem to be aware and accepting of these curriculum changes, but have not openly expressed concern of alignment of the educational policy with their academic objectives. This study focused on Indian education framework aims to understand how NEP 2020 will impact the existing structure and provide recommendations on how to optimize policy frameworks to better respond to the students' realities and demands.