AADTA Demands Delhi University Allocate One-Year PG Programme Seats to Colleges
The Academic for Action and Development Teachers Association (AADTA) has formally requested Delhi University to allocate seats to its affiliated colleges for the newly launched one-year postgraduate programme. The teachers' body raised concerns regarding an acute shortage of seats currently available in the university's departments.
In an emailed letter addressed to the Delhi University Vice Chancellor dated July 11, the association pointed out that while colleges already have designated seat allocations for the traditional two-year postgraduate (PG) courses, the same system has not yet been established for the new one-year programme.
The teachers' association urged the university administration to extend these seat allocations to individual colleges, describing the current number of seats allocated across various departments as both inadequate and insufficient for the student population.
Rajesh Jha, a member of the AADTA, explained that many university departments are already operating under severe infrastructure constraints. He noted that distributing the seat intake to colleges would ease the burden on these departments while simultaneously helping students by raising the total capacity.
According to Jha, the university currently offers only a highly restricted number of seats for the newly introduced one-year PG programme. He stated that in the majority of the offered courses, the total number of available seats remains below 50. Furthermore, these limited seats have only been allocated directly to departments that are already struggling with limited infrastructure.
The association argued that if Delhi University permits colleges to host these courses and subsequently increases the overall intake capacity, a significantly larger number of students would gain the opportunity to enroll in the one-year programme.
At the time of reporting, queries sent to Delhi University representatives regarding the association's letter and the seat allocation issue had not received a response.
