Teachers’ Body Nudge to President Droupadi Murmu on Plea Against Delhi University’s Law Course
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 27 August 2024 | The Telegraph
A teachers’ body has complained to President Droupadi Murmu that no action has been taken on its plea, forwarded to the government by the President herself, for the withdrawal of Delhi University’s revised undergraduate law syllabus that incorporates “Brahmanical” viewpoints.
The Social Democratic Teachers Front (SDTF) had sent its first letter to the President — the ex officio Visitor of DU — against the university’s new LLB jurisprudence syllabus in mid-July.
This was just after DU’s academic council had adopted several controversial changes to the syllabus, although it rejected a recommendation to prescribe two books on the Manusmriti — the ancient text that codified the Hindu caste system — from the list of reading materials.
On August 8, the President’s office forwarded the letter to the education ministry, asking it to take appropriate action and inform the teachers’ body…