As DU prepares for 2013-14 session, FYUP deterrents protest against 4-yr model

The Joint Action Front For Democratic Education (SC/ST/OBC/LEFT) organised a debate on Friday evening at the Conference hall of India International Center, on the Four Year Undergraduate Programme of Delhi University. In the long debate, many intellectuals and academicians gave their consent on the FYUP. Joint Action Front For Democratic Education strongly alleged that the ‘The Prime Minister had showed his concern at the hurried implementation of the four-year undergraduate programme, but it failed to deter the vice-chancellor from implementing the new format.’

‘There are about 600 Universities in the country and only Delhi University is bent upon introducing a four-year degree course based on the American pattern of education.’

‘If at all, the education policy of the country needs to be changed, the initiative for the same should come from the government of India and not the vice-chancellor of a particular University. Policy formulation is not the job of a Vice-Chancellor’. 

Activists of the front said, ‘It is highly misleading and baseless on the part of the Delhi University’s Vice-Chancellor to say that it falls within the autonomy of University.  In fact, the vice-chancellor has flagrantly encroached upon the domain of the government to frame policies’.

Leading intellectuals, academicians and political leaders like the former UGC chairpersons Yashpal and S K Thorat, former vice-chancellor (EFL University) A K Maurya, UGC member Arundhati Roy, JD(U) president Sharad Yadav, Sitaram Yechury (CPM), D Raja (CPI), LJP President Ram Vilas Paswan, Ashok Vajpeyi (poet), Ramanika Gupta, Syed Faishal Ali (editor, Urdu Shahara) among others participated in the programme.