Bhopal: Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi University has discontinued 92 courses of various streams from current session for different reasons. The university was running 218 programmes till now. “There were issues with certain courses which we thought to sort out before continuing with them again. As of now we have done away with 92 courses,” said Prof Ramdev Bhardwaj, vice-chancellor of the Hindi University.
The six year old university started several courses in haste to make its presence felt but the plan backfired, said a senior retired official, pleading anonymity. The courses that were discontinued include the controversial ‘Garbh Sanskar’ programme due to negative report by the internal committee. The committee had objections on process of selection of pregnant females for the course.
“There were several courses that were started without fulfilling UGC and AICTE norms. Later when the university realized its fault, the courses were discontinued,” said Bhardwaj. Hindi University at present has around 970 students in various courses. Yoga is one of the courses that has earned maximum number of students in the university. Other popular course includes Panchkarm, theatre, B.Ed and journalism. In the present academic year, university expects to get about 400 admissions, added the VC.
Hindi university had to do away with engineering courses as they started without proper lab and infrastructure required for engineering classes. Even the courses in paramedical sciences had to be discontinued in the absence of required permissions.
Most of the courses that were discontinued are the ones that required special infrastructure and permissions from specific organizations. Hindi university still lacks academic strength as it doesn’t have permanent faculty members to teach technical subjects besides adequate infrastructure.
The VC is still hopeful about the courses that have been discontinued and says that the university administration is trying its level best to obtain the required permissions for the courses. “We are in the process and I am hopeful to get permissions for the courses that have been discontinued. Once we get required permissions we will start the courses again,” Bhardwaj added.
