‘Won’t derail DU 4-year model’
11 May 2013 6:04 AM IST
Amid massive concerns expressed by some members of Parliament (MPs) over the decision to introduce a four-year graduation course in Delhi University, Union Human Resource and Development (HRD) minister MM Pallam Raju on Friday said the government is looking into those issues, but added that the momentum that is being generated towards its implementation should not be derailed.
Raju said that Delhi University has followed a certain procedure beginning with an academic council resolution, which happened in 2008.
‘It has now been taken up for implementation over the past few months. A certain momentum has been generated towards implementation of that course. Meanwhile, we have got a major representation to the Prime Minister that is done by some honourable MPs. So, whatever are the concerns expressed, we are looking into it,’ said Pallam Raju.
‘We have brought it to the notice of the Vice Chancellor and others who are involved with it and we have told them to look into these concerns and this should not impede the quality of changes that you are planning or making. We are concerned and addressing those issues. At the same time, we do not want to derail the momentum that is being generated,’ he added.
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury had earlier on Tuesday said Parliament should be consulted before taking a decision to introduce a four-year graduation course in Delhi University.
‘Delhi University is a university established by the act of Parliament. And any major changes of this nature I think ought to be properly discussed in Parliament. Though they have the autonomy, there is no difference of opinion on that. But any major change that happens in a country’s premier university established by the act of Parliament, Parliament ought to have been consulted,’ said Yechury. ‘I have moved a special mention in the Rajya Sabha, which was admitted. But because of the disruption of the House, it could not be discussed,’ he added.
Yechury further said a memorandum signed by 36 members of parliament have been sent to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking his intervention in this matter. ‘On Friday, we sent a memorandum signed by 36 MPs to the Prime Minister seeking his intervention because the basic point is all over the country you have a system of schooling and college education based on 10+2+3. This is the universal system that there is in the country,’ said Yechury. In a reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on 3 May, Pallam Raju said, according to the information furnished by the University of Delhi, under the programme, there is a provision of awarding diverse degrees, including diploma, bachelor degree and honours degree on the completion of two, three and four years, respectively.
The programme provides flexibility to the students to exit after two and three years and such students can return within a span of ten years, if otherwise eligible, to complete the degree and/or honours degree.
Raju said that Delhi University has followed a certain procedure beginning with an academic council resolution, which happened in 2008.
‘It has now been taken up for implementation over the past few months. A certain momentum has been generated towards implementation of that course. Meanwhile, we have got a major representation to the Prime Minister that is done by some honourable MPs. So, whatever are the concerns expressed, we are looking into it,’ said Pallam Raju.
‘We have brought it to the notice of the Vice Chancellor and others who are involved with it and we have told them to look into these concerns and this should not impede the quality of changes that you are planning or making. We are concerned and addressing those issues. At the same time, we do not want to derail the momentum that is being generated,’ he added.
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury had earlier on Tuesday said Parliament should be consulted before taking a decision to introduce a four-year graduation course in Delhi University.
‘Delhi University is a university established by the act of Parliament. And any major changes of this nature I think ought to be properly discussed in Parliament. Though they have the autonomy, there is no difference of opinion on that. But any major change that happens in a country’s premier university established by the act of Parliament, Parliament ought to have been consulted,’ said Yechury. ‘I have moved a special mention in the Rajya Sabha, which was admitted. But because of the disruption of the House, it could not be discussed,’ he added.
Yechury further said a memorandum signed by 36 members of parliament have been sent to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking his intervention in this matter. ‘On Friday, we sent a memorandum signed by 36 MPs to the Prime Minister seeking his intervention because the basic point is all over the country you have a system of schooling and college education based on 10+2+3. This is the universal system that there is in the country,’ said Yechury. In a reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on 3 May, Pallam Raju said, according to the information furnished by the University of Delhi, under the programme, there is a provision of awarding diverse degrees, including diploma, bachelor degree and honours degree on the completion of two, three and four years, respectively.
The programme provides flexibility to the students to exit after two and three years and such students can return within a span of ten years, if otherwise eligible, to complete the degree and/or honours degree.
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