new delhi delhi universitys academic council passed the committee for choicebased credit system cbcs and its implementation by implication but with the highest number of dissents in a long time 15 though many argue cbcs with its foundation courses and promise of flexibility is essentially fyup on a bigger scale even many supporters of the disastrous fouryear undergraduate programme are not with the vicechancellor this time other than the six ac members from leftleaning democratic teachers front and samajwadi shikshak manch and sambhavana who had also opposed fyup there were dissents even from academics for action and development misra who had protested most vociferously against the rollback of fyup going to the extent of sitting in hunger strike at the gate of the viceregal lodge and filing a case in supreme court on wednesday two of its members in ac rajesh k jha a member of the erstwhile standing committee on fyup and sadhna sharma who had helped with course design dissented on cbcs using some of the same arguments in their dissent note that detractors of fyup had made against that their dissent note signed also by sanjay kumar and am khan of intec argues that the ministry of hrds letter asking du to set up a committee on cbcs is an assault on the statutory jurisdiction of the ac cbcs has come to du in an imposing manner and in nonconsultative way and that this proposal must be sent to the departmental councils the staff councils the faculties they say allowing students to change universities will result in fluctuation of workloads contractualisation of the teachers and interuniversity transfer of faculty the same arguments have been made against fyup mainly by dtf since 2012 we did not support fyup states aads aditya narayan misra a du executive council member we had defended the autonomy of du the ac and ecs right to take decisions the cbcs was brought in as reporting matter it has never been deliberated or discussed this is even more regressive this is the same as fyup says sharma we were with the vc then aad was supporting now there is no aad member in the cbcs committee the committee however includes ac and national democratic teachers frontmember a k bhagi he and three other ndtf members have passed a resolution that one ac member says is as good as a dissent jha thinks its duplicity in any case with ac elections coming up next month nearly every major group is keen to prove theyre anticbcs and also put a few lightyears between themselves and the fyup debacle the ndtf who along with akhil bharatiya vidyarthi parishad had represented to the hrd minister smriti irani against fyup have demanded that the university grants commissions guidelines on cbcs be sent to the departments college staff councils and du students union for wider debate that the threeyears scheme of honours and programme degrees remain intact there are