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DU has formed a six-member committee to review seat availability in its one-year postgraduate programmes following ABVP’s protest over limited admissions for students completing the fourth year under FYUP.

On Friday, July 17, students gathered outside the Arts Faculty, University of Delhi (DU), as the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) protested the limited number of seats in the university’s one-year postgraduate programmes, arguing that many students completing the fourth year of the Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) could be left without admission opportunities.

As students from colleges across the university joined the protest, ABVP submitted a memorandum to DU Registrar Prof. Vikas Gupta, urging the administration to increase the intake across all one-year postgraduate courses.

The issue has come into sharper focus this year as the first batch of students completing FYUP becomes eligible for admission to one-year master’s programmes. As thousands of students prepare to move to postgraduate studies, concerns over limited seats have intensified. ABVP argues that while the number of eligible students has increased significantly, postgraduate intake has remained largely unchanged, leaving many students uncertain about their admission prospects.

In response to the protest, the university formed a six-member committee to review the matter. The panel is expected to arrive at a decision within 10 days.

According to Millennium Post, the committee will be chaired by the Dean (Academic Affairs), with the Dean (Admissions), Dean (Social Work), Head of the Department of Chemistry, Joint Registrar (Legal), and Deputy Registrar (Recruitment and Promotion) serving as members.

Welcoming the university’s decision to form the committee, ABVP Delhi State Secretary Sarthak Sharma called it a positive step and urged the administration to resolve the issue at the earliest.

As reported by The Tribune, Sharma said, “The University of Delhi remains the first choice for lakhs of students across the country. However, the inadequate number of seats under the current admission system is doing grave injustice to students’ academic aspirations.”

“The university administration must immediately enhance the number of seats to ensure that no deserving student is denied access to higher education due to seat constraints”, he added.

The organisation said it hopes the committee will recommend an increase in seats. However, it added that it would intensify its protest if the university does not take a favourable decision after the committee submits its report.

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ABVP staged a protest at Delhi University against the shortage of seats in one-year PG programmes, with the demonstration led by Aryan Mann.

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) staged a protest at Delhi University, drawing attention to the minuscule number of seats available for students seeking a postgraduate diploma after completing their fourth year. Their chief demand was that the total number of seats should be increased, as the current setup has “betrayed” the aspirations of the students.

DUSU President Aryan Maan, in a statement to IANS, said,

The university administration had announced that all students completing the fourth year, whether from honours or programme courses, would get an opportunity to take admission to the one-year course on the basis of merit. However, there are only limited seats for students who have completed the fourth year.”

Further highlighting the disparity between students opting for the conventional two-year route and those coming in straight after their fourth year, the ABVP chief stated,

Those who are willing to do masters for 2 years, they have more 4,000-5,000 seats; however, those who have completed their fourth year are only offered 1,000 seats.”

Another ABVP protestor, explaining the specific course at the centre of the protest and the demand being pursued to increase the total number of seats, said:

“The one course that has been increased in DU, thousands of students come from third and fourth year to enroll in that said course. However, the seats for MA are very low, so ABVP demands that the number of seats for the MA course be officially increased.”

The protest comes amid growing scrutiny of the one-year PG programme’s rollout, with the university’s official seat matrix listing roughly 1,068 seats spread across 45 programmes, a fraction of the number of students who stayed on for the additional fourth year. Notably, the intake for the one-year route is calculated as a percentage of each department’s pre-existing sanctioned strength rather than the actual number of fourth-year completers, a formula finalised only months after most students had already committed to the extra year.

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