Though University of Delhi is working out to devise a formula to migrate students studying under the scrapped four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP) to the three-year course, students studying BTech under it are full of anxiety of what the future of their career may be with this revocation.
While recommendations to allow the current batch to pursue this degree have been placed, no final decision has been taken yet.
“A recommendation was put in unanimity that the BTech students should be allowed to get their degree as it is not the students’ fault. The UGC has also given an assurance to students that a decision in the best of their interests will be taken,” said Nandita Narain, president Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) and member of the Standing Committee of UGC.
However, students who enrolled in the BTech programmes last year have submitted several memoranda to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), University Grants Commission (UGC) and DU seeking an assurance that their interests will be kept in mind. They also demanding that they should be awarded a BTech degree not BSc as it was being touted.
“We have submitted a memorandum to the joint secretary MHRD RP Sisodia, but no one is ready to give us a written assurance. This is a pressing time for us,” said Akshay Kachroo from Maharaja Agrasen College who had taken admission to this programme last year. Prashita Jaishwal from Indraprastha College for Women added, “No one wants to say anything about what will happen to us. We joined Delhi University because we wanted a BTech degree and not a BSc degree.”
Students are mainly worried about the validity of the course. Ansh Goyal, a student protesting at North Campus said, “We left a lot of other courses and came to DU to do BTech. We are now feeling like it was the biggest mistake of our lives. I hope we get a valid degree.”