DU mulls free education for students of SC/ST categories
21 May 2013 2:03 PM IST
Delhi University (DU) is mulling the provision of free education to students belonging to the SC/ST category from the current session of four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP).
A senior university official, on condition of anonymity, said, ‘The introduction of four-year undergraduate programme by the University of Delhi has generated a lot of discussion and debate in society across the country, but a plan to give free education to the students of reserved category is going to have a major impact on higher education in India’.
SC/ST students will not be required to pay any fees as the university is planning to give free education to students from the SC/ST category.’
The official also added that, ‘while on one hand the university is planning to give free education to the SC/ST students, on the other hand, it is planning to give concession in fees for students who are from the marginal and underprivileged sections of society.’
Dhani Ram of Ramjas College and president, Delhi University’s SC/ST Teachers Association said that university has already de-centralised admissions for SC/ST students from 2013-2014.
He further added that ‘The new FYUP is based on the principle of equality and there is no segregation in the upcoming system.
The need to make the educational space an inclusive one is the foremost challenge at a time when many first generation learners are expected to enter Universities in the upcoming decades.
SC/ST and OBC students will be getting admission in general category if their percentage equals the general category’.
DU assured the association that fees shall not be charged from students of economically weaker Dalit, Adivasi and Backward categories or poor students from rural and urban areas.
‘Earlier in centralised admissions, SC/ST students were allotted a particular college and they didn’t have the option to choose their subjects.
A senior university official, on condition of anonymity, said, ‘The introduction of four-year undergraduate programme by the University of Delhi has generated a lot of discussion and debate in society across the country, but a plan to give free education to the students of reserved category is going to have a major impact on higher education in India’.
SC/ST students will not be required to pay any fees as the university is planning to give free education to students from the SC/ST category.’
The official also added that, ‘while on one hand the university is planning to give free education to the SC/ST students, on the other hand, it is planning to give concession in fees for students who are from the marginal and underprivileged sections of society.’
Dhani Ram of Ramjas College and president, Delhi University’s SC/ST Teachers Association said that university has already de-centralised admissions for SC/ST students from 2013-2014.
He further added that ‘The new FYUP is based on the principle of equality and there is no segregation in the upcoming system.
The need to make the educational space an inclusive one is the foremost challenge at a time when many first generation learners are expected to enter Universities in the upcoming decades.
SC/ST and OBC students will be getting admission in general category if their percentage equals the general category’.
DU assured the association that fees shall not be charged from students of economically weaker Dalit, Adivasi and Backward categories or poor students from rural and urban areas.
‘Earlier in centralised admissions, SC/ST students were allotted a particular college and they didn’t have the option to choose their subjects.
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