With ‘selfie’ and ‘velfie’, a campaign against CBCS

The students’ organisation decided to launch social media campaign to intensify the ongoing campaign against CBCS before the “Maha Rally” against the system, to be held on August 26 at DU’s North Campus.

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“We will make a chart highlighting the problems with CBCS and encourage students to take selfies with it. The ‘velfie’ will be more important in a sense because the videos, which will be 10-12 seconds long, will give students a chance to explain their own experiences with the CBCS,” said Sunand.

The SFI is also holding department-wise ‘assemblies’ on CBCS, during which the activists interact and discuss the finer details of the system with students.

“We are drawing enthusiastic support from students. In the last two days, we have been able to reach out to nearly 2,600 students in 30 departments across 12 colleges of Delhi University. These assemblies have brought to the fore the concrete issues which are emerging from these chaotic reforms,” said SFI state president Prateek Ahlawat.

The common issues faced by most colleges include acute infrastructural crisis, warped student-teacher ratio and confusion about books and syllabi of various courses, he said. There was not much “choice” in general elective courses and classes for the ability enhancement courses hadn’t started in many places, said Ahlawat.

“In some colleges, the commerce departments are offering their own subjects in general elective courses. In Dyal Singh College, general electives have completely been done away with with for science students,” said Sunand.