new delhi yet another batch of teachers are preparing for a nationwide battle against the choicebased credit system the academics for action and development are rallying in support from other states to support the resistance to cbcs and a variety of reforms that they argue pave the way for the implementation of the common university actbill the delhi university teachers association and a batch of students organizations have already been agitating for days in midmay a group of some of the bestknown academics in the delhi including historian romilla thapar came together to issue a statement explaining exactly why the new batch of proposed reforms are illadvised and harmful aditya narayan mishra of aad argues that the bid to standardize the curriculum allowing an individual university only 20 leeway to decide syllabus is essentially to make it possible to impose the governments own vichardhara ideology on universities the possibility of teaching jobs becoming transferable this is a provision in the bill is also worrying as it might be used as punishment for teachers opposing the system finally all these reforms are geared toward promoting privatization says mishra public universities will not have the freedom to design curriculum or introduce courses students wanting to study anything different will be forced to go to private colleges by doing this argue teachers the government is effectively running away from one of its primary responsibilities samir behera from assam university argues that a common entrance test is unfair and unfeasible in a situation where there are massive differences between the types of higher education their locations and the facilities available also do the colleges in remote areas have the infrastructure to implement cbcs he asks his own universitys academic council he informs has rejected cbcs from this year sanskrit professor from allahabad university ram kishor shastri points out that the advertisement for the post of vicechancellor for the university clearly states that itll be a contractual position this is how they plan to keep the vicechancellors in line he says he also adds that a common curriculum will kill diversity in the indian university system ujjain has kalidasa samaroh and a jabalpur university holds raj shekha samaroh its because these scholars are from these areas a common programme will kill these says shastri their colleague from imphal manipur university m ranjit singh says that his universitys councils have accepted cbcs but will implement only at the postgraduate level this year but im still here its because the mhrd seems to have forgotten teachers exist