<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-story-highlight" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 30px;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"PT Serif",serif;font-size:14px"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;line-height:1.1;color:inherit;font-size:36px">Delhi University plans on capping language enrolments</h1><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:10px 0px;font-weight:400;line-height:22px;font-size:16px">The standing committee of the DU’s academic council (AC) has recommended putting a 10% cap on the number of students a college to study a language as an optional subject against its sanctioned strength of BA/BCom (programme) courses.</h2><span class="gmail-cta-link education-cb-sectionmr-15" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:1px 8px;margin:3px 0px 0px;border:2px solid rgb(64,163,211);font-weight:600;text-transform:uppercase;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;display:inline-block;font-size:10px">EDUCATION</span> <span class="gmail-text-dt" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(117,117,117);font-size:12px;text-transform:capitalize">Updated: Apr 23, 2019 11:50 IST</span><div class="gmail-media gmail-user-dt" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:9px 0px;zoom:1;overflow:hidden"><div class="gmail-media-left" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;margin:0px;display:table-cell;vertical-align:top"><div class="gmail-media-img gmail-author-sm-img" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px;width:90px;height:90px;overflow:hidden;max-width:36px;max-height:36px"><img src="https://www.hindustantimes.com/images/app-images/ht/default_author.png" alt="Fareeha Iftikhar" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle; border: 0px; outline: none; border-radius: 100%; max-width: 90px; width: 36px; height: 36px;"></div></div><div class="gmail-media-body" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px;zoom:1;overflow:hidden;width:10000px;display:table-cell;vertical-align:top"><div class="gmail-para-txt" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-size:12px;display:inline-block;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span class="gmail-author" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(64,163,211)">Fareeha Iftikhar</span> <br style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px">Hindustan Times, New Delhi</div></div></div><div class="gmail-story-lg-img" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px"><div class="gmail-thumbnail" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:4px;margin:0px 0px 8px;line-height:1.42857;border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);border-radius:4px"><img src="https://www.hindustantimes.com/rf/image_size_960x540/HT/p2/2019/03/27/Pictures/delhi-university_352a4cae-5029-11e9-b593-df9071890b8d.jpg" alt="Delhi University,language enrolments" title="Delhi University" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px auto; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); outline: none; width: 620.5px; display: block; max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></div><div class="gmail-img-captionh2" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:5px 0px 0px;line-height:20px">Delhi University (Saumya Khandelwal/HT PHOTO)</div></div></div><div class="gmail-story-content" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"PT Serif",serif;font-size:14px"><div class="gmail-social-icons-ar gmail-no-print gmail-social-fixed" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px;width:55px"><ul class="gmail-social-list-icon" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px;list-style:none"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 25px;text-align:center"><a style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);outline:none;line-height:29px;font-weight:600"><span class="gmail-fa gmail-fa-facebook gmail-story-fb" title="Facebook Share" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:4px auto 0px;display:block;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:1.4em;line-height:1;font-family:FontAwesome;color:rgb(65,89,140)"></span></a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 25px;text-align:center"><a style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);outline:none;line-height:29px;font-weight:600"><span class="gmail-fa gmail-fa-twitter gmail-story-tw" title="Tweet" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px auto;display:block;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:1.4em;line-height:1;font-family:FontAwesome;color:rgb(2,174,236)"></span></a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 25px;text-align:center"><a style="box-sizing:border-box;padding: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_container__" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px;border:0pt none"></div></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;font-size:20px;line-height:32px">The agenda items passed by the standing committee during its meeting, last week, stated, “The admission committee felt to re-look over the eligibility criteria related to MIL recommended having a uniform policy of awarding advantages to students who wish to pursue languages in higher studies for all colleges.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;font-size:20px;line-height:32px">Jaswinder Singh, principal, SGTB Khalsa College, said capping the number of students enrolled in one MIL should only be applicable the colleges offering more than one such languages. “There are colleges which have permanent faculty for several MILs but there are no takers for some languages. Thus, capping can work only in such cases,” he said.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;font-size:20px;line-height:32px">SGTB Khalsa only offers Punjabi among languages, as an optional subject to the students enrolled in BA (programme) and BCom (programme) courses. Earlier, the college offered Urdu as well. “Since there were no takers and the faculty members also retired the college stopped offering it now,” Singh said.</p><div class="exel-size-ads" id="gmail-div-gpt-ad-1536739752330-0" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:auto auto 20px;width:728px"><div id="gmail-google_ads_iframe_/1055314/HT_Desk_In-story_Middle_728x90_0__container__" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px;border:0pt none;display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px"></div></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;font-size:20px;line-height:32px">A member of the standing committee, who did not wish to be named, said, “This has happened in many colleges, they have stopped offering many languages eventually. The idea behind fixing the number of enrolments is to encourage regular admissions in all languages.”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 20px;font-size:20px;line-height:32px"><span class="gmail-text-dt" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;margin:0px;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(117,117,117);font-size:12px;text-transform:capitalize">First Published: Apr 23, 2019 11:50 IST</span></p></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a>    <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div></div>