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Monday, 3 June 2013

Student organizations to hold protest against Delhi University's four-year graduate programme

 


To oppose the proposed four-year graduate programme in Delhi University (DU), various student organizations have decided to hold protest in the national capital on Monday.

"This four-year programme is an anti-student educational reform that will adversely affect students coming from the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Other Backward Castes (OBC), the physically-challenged and minority communities in many ways," said a joint statement from Campus Front of India (CFI), Democratic Students' Union (DSU) and Students Islamic Union (SIU) here on Sunday. 

The protesters belonging to CFI, DSU and SIU will burn the effigies of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, human resource development minister M M Pallam Raju and DU vice-chancellor Dinesh Singh at the Arts Faculty in the varsity campus.

The student members of Joint Action Front for Democratic Education, which primarily represents SC, ST and OBC students, will march to India Gate with flaming torches.

"The central government is trying to experiment with Delhi University - the biggest university in the country . This experiment is being done under the current vice-chancellor Dinesh Singh to privatize education and make it inaccessible to the most deprived sections of the country," the statement added.

"This university will become the model to ensure that higher education becomes the stronghold of the upper caste ruling elite," it claimed.

The new course system has been facing strong opposition from student outfits like All India Students Association (AISA), All India Students Federation (AISF) and Students Federation of India (SFI), along with Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA), who have demanded the resignation of the DU vice-chancellor.


Source : TOI , 2nd June 2013 

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