Editorial
The Delhi University vice-chancellor may have his way with the new 4-year undergraduate course with Union minister Shashi Tharoor virtually refusing to interfere with the plan to introduce the new pattern from this year saying overruling the decision to would set a "dangerous precedent".
The Minister of State for HRD said if any teachers or professors had any grievances regarding the course, they can talk with the vice-chancellor. "If we overrule the university's decision, which they think is good in academic context, then I think it would set a dangerous precedent as tomorrow anybody would overrule academic programmes of universities for some ideological or political reasons. Then, it would not be good for the country's intellectual health," Tharoor said.
He said his ministry would be looking at the needs of academic rigour, scholarships and other issues with regard to the four-year undergraduate programme and "there was nothing more his ministry would be do
