On June 26, two cross petitions were moved-one for the implementation of FYUP and the other seeking restoration of the three-year programme. A third petition in favour of FYUP by former Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) president Aditya Narain Mishra was also mentioned before the vacation bench. Though the bench refused to give an urgent hearing to the petitions, it fixed the matter for July 1 before the regular bench, saying the matter required an effective hearing which cannot be done by a vacation bench.
Now that the issue has been resolved between UGC and DU, at least one petition becomes infructuous. The PIL filed by Delhi-based lawyer R K Kapoor had sought scrapping of the FYUP saying "FYUP violates the National Education Policy, 1986, which advocates the 10+2+3 system and therefore it is necessary, that DU must revert to the earlier system". Hours after DU agreed to UGC's directive, advocate Kapoor told TOI that his petition "virtually becomes infructuous".
The other two petitions-one by professor Mishra and the other on behalf of eight students of Maharaja Agrasen College who are studying under the four-year programme-were in favour of FYUP.
Mishra had first moved the Supreme Court on June 25 and wanted the UGC directive to be stayed till the legal challenge to the UGC order was decided. He had submitted that FYUP was valid and the ordinance brought by the university regarding this was consistent with the UGC guidelines. While the apex court refused to stay the directive to scrap FYUP in Delhi University with immediate effect, it had asked Mishra to move the Delhi high court.
Speaking to TOI on Friday, Mishra said that he would consult his legal advisers about the petition.
"In the given circumstances I will have to consult my legal adviser and decide the next course of action. I would like to say that my fight is for the university's autonomy. My question is not about FYUP. If the setting of course and curriculum is not a prerogative of the university then whose is it," he said.
Even as the admissions start in DU from Tuesday with the dispute being resolved, all the petitions will come for hearing on the same day.
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