India, Aug. 3 -- The Democratic Teachers' Front (DTF) has criticised the Delhi University (DU) registrar's request, allegedly sent via WhatsApp to affiliated colleges, seeking proposals from institutions willing to offer the newly introduced one-year postgraduate (PG) programme.

In a statement issued on Saturday, DTF - a DU teachers' body - said that DU-affiliated colleges are already facing infrastructure and faculty shortages due to the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) quota and the four-year undergraduate programme. The request to offer the newly introduced one-year PG course will strain resources, it claimed.

"The move by the university to push the one-year PG surreptitiously onto colleges is unacceptable. It is a well-known fact t...