New Delhi: A group of Delhi University teachers in favour of the four-year undergraduate programme today went on a 24-hour long hunger strike to protest against the University Grants Commission order for its roll back.
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.
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.
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.
Bureau Report
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