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Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP) is a flagship initiative under NEP2020 in the field of Teacher education in India. It is a four-year integrated dual major undergraduate programme that allows the students to receive a Bachelor degree in Education (B.Ed.) along with a major bachelor's degree (B.A./B.Sc./B.Com.) in a chosen disciplinary/inter-disciplinary subject at the same time. The programme is designed keeping in consideration the long-standing issues in the field of teacher education for its inadequate importance on disciplinary knowledge and most importantly its lack of integration with pedagogical, practical and professional competencies. In this paper, the investigator made an effort to discuss the main features of integrated teacher education programme along with its key benefits. The study is completely based on Secondary data collected from available books, journals, official documents, websites etc.