The undersigned students’ organisations of Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Milia Islamia, organized a protest demonstration today in the University campus against the Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP).
According to Mahboob Shahana, Gen. Sec, Campus Front of India, this demonstration began at the Arts Faculty and proceeded as a Protest March till the crossing in front of Ramjas College and Delhi School of Economics. We blocked the road and raised our demands to scrap the FYUP immediately. Protesters burnt the effigy of the faces of neoliberal policies of the Indian State visible in DU through the privatization of education, led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, his HRD Minister M M Pallam Raju and the brainchild of the FYUP in DU, Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh.
He further added that the university administration and the Delhi Police refused to allow the democratic protest to happen. But the student organisations, teachers and students of the university went ahead and participated in the demonstration despite repeated threats from the administration security and police.
He said that this four-year programme is an anti-student educational reform that will adversely affect students coming from the SC/ST/OBC/Disabled and minority communities in many ways. Most importantly it introduces the ‘exit-point’ policy which legitimizes the dropout rate of the most deprived sections of students who come to this university. This extra year in the undergraduate programme will add to the financial burden of the majority of students. Further, the changes in the curriculum clearly reflect the Hindutwa majoritarian agenda of the neo-liberal Indian State in collusion with the multi-national corporate houses.
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