new delhi draft guidelines issued by the university grants commission ugc recently pertaining to the minimum standards and procedures for award of phd degrees have received flak from several professors who argued that it would lead to a dilution of the existing higher educational structuresaccording to the draft document a candidate with a fouryear undergraduate degree will also be eligible for a phd programme provided they have a minimum cgpa of 75 out of 10it further states that a student who has completed a oneyear masters degree programme with at least 55 after a fouryear undergraduate programme can seek admission to phd courses admissions to phd programmes for those with a twoyear masters programme will also be based on similar criteriamany from the teaching fraternity have raised questions over the move while stating that the document is both antistudent and antiteacherrudrashish chakraborty professor at kirori mal college said the most rampant assault of the proposed fyup is the absolute irrelevance of the postgraduate courses the document proposes that pg courses are now reduced to only one year from the existing two years moreover pg has been made redundant since a student can directly apply for phd after completing the fouryear undergraduate programme this is academically unviable as it does away with the pedagogical consolidation required at the pg level for any student who wishes to pursue phdstating that the proposed structure will not provide students with sufficient time to pursue their area of specialisation academic council member mithuraaj dhusiya added repeated restructuring of the syllabus framework within such short intervals clearly shows that both moe and ugc and consequently universities are illprepared to implement nep from the academic year 202223