new delhi amid growing criticism over the introduction of choice based credit system cbcs delhi universitys course committee will meet on monday to discuss the formulation of syllabus this will be the first meeting post a university grants commission notice saying that instead of 20 a varsity can now modify the model syllabi up to 30 during an earlier meeting of the course committee teachers had alleged that courses were prepared without consultations and approved by the departments the delhi university teachers association duta continues to hope that the new system will not be implemented in a hasty manner the syllabus has to be prepared carefully we hope the minister smriti irani will give us some time and look into the matter personally said nandita narain president duta but it is not just the duta or leftwing students and teachers groups that are protesting against cbcs rightwing organizations such as the national democratic teachers frontndtf and even the nsui have taken a critical view of the matter ndtf member inder mohan kapahy said the surest way to kill any good academic idea is to implement it without any preparation without first creating the required minimum infrastructure and without taking stakeholders on boardin fact alienating major sections of the academic community this is what is actually happening as far as cbcs is concerned kapahy is also a member of ugc stating the intentions of the mhrd and ugc as good kapahy however said that with 650 different kinds of universities and over 40000 colleges and a student strength of almost 24 crore the higher education system in india is too huge and diverse and unprepared large systems too often become the burial ground for many good intentions academic performance indicatorsperformance based appraisal system and the fyup are recent examples of good intentions gone wrong he said