Will reply to UGC demand on FYUP: DU

Amid continuing protests by several students and teachers against FYUP, University Grants Commission had yesterday sent a formal letter to DU asking it to review the programme as per its decision on 13 June.

‘The letter (from the UGC) has been received. The university will reply in due course,’ DU’s media coordinator Malay Neerav said. On allegations by a section of teachers that DU Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh has refused to take heed of the UGC’s decision and has scheduled an Academic Council meeting on June 21 to secure approval for new courses under FYUP, Neerav said that it was a ‘routine’ meeting.

‘The Academic Meeting was scheduled to take place for some time now. It is neither a special meeting nor a emergency meeting, but a routine one,’ he said. In its full Commission meeting on 13 June, UGC members opined that FYUP was in ‘violation’ of the national policy on education which follows the 10+2+3 pattern.