New Delhi: The University of Delhi (DU) on Friday announced an increase in seats for its recently launched one-year postgraduate (PG) programmes, a demand that students and faculty have been raising for a while.
Seats in M.A. English, History, Philosophy, Political Science, M.Sc in Mathematics, and Master of Commerce have been increased from 45 to 126, an increase of 81 seats.
The number of seats in the psychology programme has been increased from 34 to 63, while those in the chemistry programme have increased from 45 to 63. The M.A. in Economics will now have 126 seats instead of its earlier 40 seats, while the seats in the M.Sc Statistics have been increased from 29 to 54.
HT had earlier reported that, on July 17, DU constituted a committee to examine increasing the number of seats in the one-year PG programmes, stating that it had received requests from various departments. Several students in the Four Year Undergraduate Programme welcomed the announcement. “I have applied to the M.A. History one-year programme, and today when I got to know that they have increased the number of seats from 45 to 126, I did feel relieved. However, I believe that as there are many colleges under DU, maybe the new number of seats for a course should have been around 200,” said a student, requesting anonymity.
