After a delay of almost two weeks, the University Grants Commission (UGC) finally conducted the second meeting of the standing committee to look into the restructuring of courses for the batch admitted under the Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP). During the meeting, the UGC recommended a structure which doesn’t overburden students who had taken admission in the university last year under FYUP. However, the commission has given the university the freedom to design the course as per their vision in order to benefit students the most.
According to Aman Awana, member of the standing committee and Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU), the UGC’s only concern is to not overburden students. “The UGC has recommended that all the other courses in FYUP be scrapped and the concurrent courses be reduced from four papers to two papers. Since EVS is compulsory as per Supreme Court orders, one paper of that will be there as well. There will be a total of 14 main discipline papers. Thus, the structure will be 14+2+1 papers which have to be completed in two years. This way a student will not study more than four papers in one semester,” informed Awana.
The UGC also took a call on the BTech courses which are supposed to continue for the current batch of students admitted in 2013. “The UGC has left the restructuring of the BTech course on the university. However, they have recommended that the foundation courses be scrapped and that a total of 18 main discipline papers be taught in the remaining three years. They also want that the infrastructure in all colleges be upgraded and more laboratories are constructed,” added Awana.
The meeting of the UGC had been long overdue as the committee needed to discuss and send a recommendation to DU regarding the restructuring. The Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) had even taken up the issue on Monday to quicken the process. However, the UGC will now officially issue its recommendation to the university on Wednesday. The university will now have to hold an Academic Council meeting followed by a meeting of Committee of Courses and eventually the Executive Council.