Hundreds of students of Delhi University staged a protest outside the HRD Ministry and submitted a representation demanding that the six B.Tech courses introduced last academic session should not be scrapped.
The Ministry has assured that students' interest will be kept in mind and University Grants Commission would be coming out with a statement on this issue.
B.Tech students also staged a protest in North Campus of DU and took a rally from the VC's residence to his office.
Some students tried to enter the VC's office, but were stopped from doing so by Delhi Police and Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel.
The agitating students demanded that their course should not be converted to B.Sc.
“We had enrolled in DU for a four-year B.Tech programme and we expect to obtain the same. We have no problems if all the other courses are of three years' duration. But our course should remain a four-year course,” Arjun Malhotra, a student of B.Tech in Computer Science, said.
Another B.Tech student Rajesh Choudhary said, “We don't want Delhi University to scrap the B.Tech course. If B.Tech gets scrapped, our future will get destroyed. We will not sit silent till our demands are met.”
Delhi University yesterday decided to scrap the FYUP after UGC mounted pressure to roll it back.
The VC had issued a statement asking principals of various colleges affiliated to the varsity to start admissions for the new session under the three-year format.
The decision has put an end to the uncertainty over the admission process for 2014-15 which was triggered due to the row over FYUP between DU and UGC.
Over 2.7 lakh students have applied for admission to more than 54,000 seats in 64 colleges of the varsity.
