The Delhi University has sought Rs 100 crore from the University Grants Commission (UGC) for starting three BTech programmes — Computer Science, Electronics and Communications and Electrical Engineering — under its Faculty of Technology for setting up infrastructure facilities.
According to a proposal submitted by the university to the UGC, it has requested that positions for teaching and non-teaching staff be sanctioned at the earliest so that the programmes can be initiated. “In order to implement this initiative and further the cause of implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) through introduction of the Btech courses mentioned above, the university would require Rs 100 crore as financial support to set up infrastructure facilities in terms of state-of-the-art laboratories, classrooms and other attendant facilities.
The student intake for each programme would be 120 with two sections of 60 students each. The total intake would be 360 and the total strength over four years duration would be 1440, according to the minutes of the meeting. The committee also recommended that the mode of admissions would be through the Joint Entrance Examination (Mains). “There will be no ward quota, ECA quota and Sports quota for these programmes,” the committee said.
The structure of the BTech programmes would be designed in such a manner that there would be a minimum of 50 percent weightage to the major subject area of study with a maximum of 65 percent weightage and remaining weightage would be to the minor subject areas of study, it said. “The student would have complete flexibility to choose any subject area other than his/her major subject area,” it added. “The syllabi of these programmes would be devised taking into consideration the contemporary requirement of the programmes and its synergy with the industry and other premier engineering and technology institutions offering similar programmes of study at this level to make the students globally competitive both in terms of development of trained man power as well as their acceptability for conceptualisation and implementation of successful startups through innovations,” read the delibrations of the committee. The student-teacher ratio would be 1:20.
