Delhi University Teachers Union president Nandita Narain also submitted representations to the minister regarding the Choice Based Credit System.
Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani on Tuesday made an unscheduled visit to Hindu College to take stock of hostel facilities for disabled students, and to “ensure that college extends fee-waiver to students with special needs”’.
The college had earlier discontinued the waiver scheme while allegedly citing fund constraints. Irani’s inspection came just a day after she met a visually impaired student from Hindu College at a public meeting. The student had raised the issue of college not extending the hostel fee-waiver scheme for students with disabilities.
Delhi University Teachers Union president Nandita Narain also submitted representations to the minister regarding the Choice Based Credit System.
“We raised the issue of CBCS and she assured us that she will soon call a teachers’ meeting, including teachers belonging to other central universities, to address concerns,” said Nandita Narain, president, DUTA.
The DU teacher body last month had passed a unanimous resolution opposing the University Grants Commission’s new scheme.
Many student and teacher groups have come out in strong opposition against the UGC’s recent attempt at academic reforms, saying that its “cafeteria” approach to education will only lead to dilution of the academic standards in higher education, but also threaten autonomy of central universities.
As per the UGC, the new system proposes a common syllabus for all central universities, a common entrance test, faculty and student mobility, and credit transfers. The CBCS was passed by the DU EC last week with only five dissents out of 23 opinions. But before promising consultations on CBCS, the HRD minister met officiating principal of Hindu College Anju Srivastava and the hostel warden Poonam Sethi.
Sethi apprised the minister as to how the college Governing Body failed to make an allowance for the disabled students under the government’s fee waiver scheme.
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