Sources said, ‘The members felt that the programme was in violation of the national policy on education which follows the 10-plus 2-plus 3 pattern’. The UGC officials present at the meeting said that while the Delhi University is an autonomous body, but it has to obtain permission from the competent authority for the programme which in this case is the President (Visitor) itself.
The programme, the officials said, stands to jeopardise the future of the students and hence UGC has decided to ask DU to review the FYUP ‘immediately’. The commission had, last year, on the advice of the HRD ministry, constituted an advisory committee to monitor the progress of the implementation of FYUP. Voices against FYUP got shriller soon after the Narendra Modi-led NDA government came to power and Smriti Irani became HRD minister. Irani had protested against the implementation of FYUP.
NDTF founder member Inder Mohan Kapahy, who had met Irani on 2 June for over an hour, had said that the minister had assured action within a fortnight. ‘It’s a matter of a few more days before the fate of FYUP is decided,’ the NDTF leader had said.