The University Grants Commission (UGC) today decided to ask Delhi University to review the controversial Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP).
The move, which could come as a shot in the arm for student bodies and teachers organisations demanding its roll back, was taken at a full Commission meeting here.
The meeting felt the programme was in violation of the national policy on education which follows the 10-plus 2-plus 3 pattern.
"This university does enjoy autonomy but it has to obtain permission from the competent authority for the programme which in this case is the President (Visitor) itself," said UGC officials who attended the meeting.
The programme, the officials said, stands to jeopardize the future of the students and hence UGC has decided to ask DU to review the FYUP "immediately", he said.
The Commission had last year, on the advice of the HRD Ministry and controversies surrounding it, constituted an advisory committee to monitor the progress of the implementation of FYUP.
Voices against DU's FYUP intensified soon after the Narendra Modi-led NDA government came to power with various students' and teachers' bodies staged protests even as the admission process is going on in full swing.
The BJP manifesto for Delhi had promised a rollback of the programme.
The UGC meeting was presided by Chairman Ved Prakash.
