Members of AISA staging a demonstration demanding roll back of FYUP in front of Shastri Bhawan in New Delhi on Monday. (PTI Photo)
Following the conflict between Delhi University (DU) and University Grants Commission (UGC) over the Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP), some academics are planning to go on a hunger strike on Tuesday.
Former Delhi University Teachers' Association president Aditya Narayan Mishra told ANI, "This is an attack on the autonomy of university by Ministry of Human Resource and Development and UGC. Their aim is to ward away the bright students away from DU to private colleges. We are trying to fill posts of faculty, but they don't want us to do that. They earlier said that the course shouldn't end before three years. In many other universities, four year course is on, but they don't oppose that. Here 56,000 students come, while in other universities around 500 students are there. UGC doesn't have to power be an administrator."
Mishra also added, "In a video, NSUI and ABVP students attacked a faculty member, Yogendra Kumar but no action has been taken and in protest of this we will go on hunger strike.It is unfortunate that the university, known for adhering to its schedule, is being destroyed. The govt and ministry is hell bent on the federal structure of this university. Now university will be running from politicians' houses."
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Meanwhile, human resource development (HRD) minister Smriti Irani refused to comment on the FYUP tussle between DU and UGC.
"I am not in the liberty to speak," said Irani.
Earlier on Tuesday Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) had put up a notice stating deferment of admission.
The UGC had on Sunday issued a directive to DU asking it to scrap the FYUP. The order fueled criticism from some quarters that the UGC was trying to over step boundaries.
The first cut-off list for admissions to the Delhi University was supposed to come out on Tuesday.
DU students as well as aspiring students have been facing a lot of difficulties due to ongoing tiff between the UGC and the university over the FYUP.
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