DU draws roadmap to comply with UGC diktat, waits for nod
27 Jun 2014 12:04 AM
Formal dialogue between the Delhi University and the University Grants Commission (UGC) finally began on Thursday with the former sending a proposal to rollback the four-year programme and award honours degree in three years. The proposal has been made on the basis of the suggestions forwarded by several eminent academicians which included vice-chancellors, professors and scientists, on Wednesday.
In a letter to the UGC, Alka Sharma, the university registrar said, ‘The proposal draws on some already existing and approved courses and will supplement courses from the older undergraduate programme under the semester system. This will considerably reduce the time required for reviewing and adopting the older undergraduate courses that existed before the introduction of FYUP.’ ‘Keeping in mind the delay in admissions which were supposed to start on 24 June, the university is of the opinion that time is of essence, and hence, this proposal submitted to both UGC and DU may provide the way forward,’ said Alka Sharma.
On why going back fully to three-year undergraduate programme is not an option, Alka Sharma said, ‘That requires various statutory bodies of the university to adopt a course of study similar to the courses that existed prior to FYUP. The Act, Statutes, Ordinances require that course of study need to moved through the Committee of Courses of the various department, faculty meetings, Academic Council and the Executive council prior to their coming into force and will take substantial time.’
Considering that aspirants have already gone through a registration process, she said: ‘In compliance with UGC’s demand, it would require fresh registration of students as the previous courses such as BA (Programme), B Com (Programme) and BSc (Programme) and many others prior to FYUP were not available in the registration process carried out by the university in June 2014.’ Though the proposal has been sent to UGC for approval and to break the current stalemate, DUTA has already rejected the proposal.
In a letter to the UGC, Alka Sharma, the university registrar said, ‘The proposal draws on some already existing and approved courses and will supplement courses from the older undergraduate programme under the semester system. This will considerably reduce the time required for reviewing and adopting the older undergraduate courses that existed before the introduction of FYUP.’ ‘Keeping in mind the delay in admissions which were supposed to start on 24 June, the university is of the opinion that time is of essence, and hence, this proposal submitted to both UGC and DU may provide the way forward,’ said Alka Sharma.
On why going back fully to three-year undergraduate programme is not an option, Alka Sharma said, ‘That requires various statutory bodies of the university to adopt a course of study similar to the courses that existed prior to FYUP. The Act, Statutes, Ordinances require that course of study need to moved through the Committee of Courses of the various department, faculty meetings, Academic Council and the Executive council prior to their coming into force and will take substantial time.’
Considering that aspirants have already gone through a registration process, she said: ‘In compliance with UGC’s demand, it would require fresh registration of students as the previous courses such as BA (Programme), B Com (Programme) and BSc (Programme) and many others prior to FYUP were not available in the registration process carried out by the university in June 2014.’ Though the proposal has been sent to UGC for approval and to break the current stalemate, DUTA has already rejected the proposal.
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