The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is a landmark initiative aimed at transforming the country's education landscape. Its comprehensive reforms encompass various dimensions, including curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, and teacher education. This research seeks to investigate the perception of prospective teachers towards the NEP 2020. The objective was to study the association between perception of prospective teachers towards NEP 2020 with respect to gender and locale. Through a quantitative approach, this study engages with prospective teachers in educational institutions who are studying in B.Ed. programme of government, government aided, private colleges and universities in Lucknow city considered as a population of the present study. Utilizing purposive sampling, data is collected via self- constructed Scale on Perception of Prospective Teachers on New National Education Policy-2020 (SPPTNEP) to capture the nuanced perspectives of the participants, then the collected data was analysed by using Chi-square test. Significant association of gender and locale with the perception of prospective teachers towards NEP2020 was found.