Delhi University (DU) is rewriting the syllabus of its undergraduate courses. The DU officials have reportedly instructed 11 departments and a college to initiate the same and introduce the revised curriculum in the academic session 2019-20. The recent decision has come as a blown to the affiliated colleges, which invited criticism from a section of the faculty, who termed it as a “serious statutory violation.” Besides, the undergraduate curriculum revision committee, constituted by the administration, asked the department heads to make the final draft and asks for suggestions from all the stakeholders. NEET Mandatory For Medical Students Willing To Pursue MBBS Abroad. 

As per The Hindustan Times, DU’s undergraduate curriculum revision committee last week emailed to the heads of 12 departments that included computer science, history, botany, music, zoology, Sanskrit, microbiology and environmental studies and the administration of Indraprastha College for Women, to revise the syllabus in a given schedule and asked them to “abide by it.” As per the plan, each department will have to build up their committees and prepare a first draft of the revised curriculum by March 29, 2019. Further, each departmental committee will come up with a minimum of four drafts before submitting the final copy to the Heads of Departments. NIT Kurukshetra Girls Hostel Restricts Students From Stepping Out After 6 PM. 

Meanwhile, the members of the DU’s Executive Council (EC) and Academic Council (AC) wrote to vice-chancellor Yogesh Tyagi, opposing the “manner of revising the curriculum.” An EC member, Rajesh Jha was quoted in the same report as saying, “As per DU rules of revising syllabus, the departments would root the draft of revised curriculum through individual committees of all courses offered by any department. It is then sent to each faculty for approval. It is further passed by the standing council before going for a discussion in AC. Then the final draft is passed by the EC. The university has bypassed all these steps.” The EC and AC members of the Delhi University have requested the VC to withdraw the order as they claim that the schedule was prepared without consulting the statutory bodies.

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