Press Release: 23 June 2014
The DUTA expresses its deep concern for the students who have been waiting for admission to make life choices and whose future has been plunged into uncertainty by the intransigent attitude of the Vice-Chancellor who has crossed all limits of propriety by refusing to comply with the UGC order. It is the same Vice-Chancellor who, a year ago, violated every possible rule to bring in the ill-designed FYUP and reduced all statutory bodies to rubber stamps using threat and intimidation. It is not at all surprising, given that the VC has been running Delhi University like his personal fiefdom with little concern for either students or teachers. The DUTA hopes that the Visitor, in his capacity as the Highest Authority of the University, intervenes so that the sanctity of the DU Act and the UGC Act is upheld.
The DUTA expresses its concern about the tensions building up amongst students leading to incidents of the kind that happened today when a teacher was injured during a scuffle between two groups of students. The DUTA appeals to students and parents to bear with the situation as delay in admissions can be compensated while admission into an ill-designed course will jeopardise the careers of nearly 60,000 students.
The DUTA welcomes the decision of the Principal’s Association in deferring the admission process which was to start tomorrow until a resolution is found to this unprecedented situation.
In the first meeting of the Standing Committee held today, the DUTA placed the roadmap for transition to pre-FYUP programmes for students seeking admission this year which included the following points:
1. All the courses that existed prior to introduction of FYUP must be restored. These will include BA (Programme), BSc (Programme), B.Com (Programme), B.El.Ed and all Honours courses.
2. The sanctioned number of seats for each course will be what it was prior to introduction of FYUP. For this, the seats for courses like BA (Programme), BSc (Programme) that were redistributed to other courses, will have to be restored to the original course. This will affect new courses that were started last year under FYUP and also new sections that were added to certain FYUP courses in existing disciplines.
3. The pre-FYUP courses along with the number of seats in each course should be advertised by each College on its website, and also on the University website. The latter should also display the syllabi of each of these courses.
4. The practice of announcing the first cut-off on the basis of past experience, without requiring the students to fill application forms, can be resorted to. This practice was followed by the University in the year 2012 before FYUP was introduced in 2013. Any student who has the requisite marks can show his/her marksheet and obtain admission.
The DUTA also placed its proposal for the current batch of students which included scrapping all the Foundation and Applied Courses and offering 3 DC1 and 1 DC2 papers each in the third and fourth semester and 4 DC1 papers in the fifth and sixth semesters so that all students can get an Honours Degree in three years. For B.Tech. students, the fourth year should be retained and they should be eligible for a B.Tech degree as per the terms and conditions at the time of taking admission.
The DUTA demands the resignation of the Vice-Chancellor, who has plunged Delhi University into a crisis never seen before and has, hence, lost the moral authority to continue to head the institution.
Nandita Narain, President
Harish Khanna, Secretary
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