In a big blow to the efforts to implement semester system in Delhi University the teachers of Delhi School of Economics (DSE) and several colleges including prestigious LSR, IP, JMC and several others have openly come out against the proposed system in the undergraduate courses including Economics.
The latest development happened on Thursday last week when Vice-Chancellor Deepak Pental interacted with Economics teachers of Delhi School of Economics and various colleges at the Lecture Theatre of DSE regarding to implement semester system for BA (Economics) from the coming session. This was the third meeting in less than three months to implement semester system. Earlier on 18-11-2009 and 22-01-2010 the teachers and faculty had discussed the same issue. They also passed on a resolution on 4th February reiterating their earlier stand and rejected the proposal by saying “We unanimously reject the hurried and half-baked imposition of the semester system… We also decide unanimously, not to participate in any work related to the implementation of the proposed semester system.”
Teachers of English, Botany, History, Zoology, Psychology and some other subjects have already rejected the proposal. DUTA too has been opposing the stand taken by the Vice-Chancellor. However, Academic Council Member Abha Dev says that the Vice-Chancellor has now started to follow the policy of ‘foot dalo aur raaj karo’. He is now inviting teachers in a group of 5-6 and tries to allure them department wise to get support of the teachers by any mean. On the other hand DUTA President Aditya Narayan Mishra says that faculty of different subjects have already opposed the proposed system. Even they have passed resolutions in this regard
