File photo: Delhi University students queue up for admissions
Delhi University's new session started on Monday after the rollback of the controversial four-year under-graduate programme or FYUP. But students already enrolled under it claimed they were in 'no man's land'.
"Authorities have played with our future; we are in no man's land. We don't know what will happen to us. We started criticising the four-year programme initially, then we accepted it and got used to the programme, but now it has been rolled back," said Malvika Sharad, second-year History Honours student at the Lady Shri Ram College.
Aditi Jain, a B Com honours student at the same college, said, "Even our teachers are confused now. They are giving us no information about the course. It would have been good if they had thought about this FYUP thing a bit earlier."
The students claimed they have been totally ignored by the authorities.
"They have forgotten us. They are not concerned about our future. I was never in favour of the FYUP from the beginning," said Mahima Tigga, a mass communication student at Kamala Nehru College.
According to the new restructuring, the university will function under a unique arrangement where students will be simultaneously taught under two different course structures.
The first will be exclusively for the 2013 FYUP batch and the second will be according to the 2012 syllabus for the rest of the batches.
Delhi University, one of the most prestigious universities in the country, admits over 50,000 students in its under-graduate programme in 63 colleges.
Echoing similar sentiments, Anjali Kavatia of Ramjas College said, "The FYUP clearly wasted our time. During our first year, only basic things were taught. There will be a lot of pressure on us in the next two years."
Divish Soni from Hindu College said, "Delhi University authorities have done enough experiments on us. I hope the next two years will be smooth and pass without much difficulty."