“It is a temporary move intended to make the course better for the students,” sources said. However, students are not happy with the university’s decision. The students are disappointed by the university’s decision and are worried about the programme’s future.

Students of 2013 B Plan batch, on condition of anonymity, said, “We fear the existence of the course. Initially, the seats were reduced from 60 to 40. Now, they have discontinued the course for the next academic year. It just doesn’t make any sense.” The university had started the B Plan programme three years ago with 60 students in a batch.

However in 2013, it had reduced the seats to 40 students per batch. Last year, the university had offered to restructure its fiveyear Bachelor of Planning (B Plan) to make it a ‘four plus two year programme’, after students staged a protest claiming that their five-year course structure was not congruent with the four-year course as mandated by the Institute of Town Planners, India (ITPI), a non statutory body.

This decision had not been well-received by the students, sources said. Defending the decision to temporarily drop the course, CEPT’s Admission Committee Chairman Subhrangsu Goswami said, “The B Plan programme, one of the newer undergraduate programmes, has been put on hold for this academic year to enable building of adequate infrastructure. This will also give the university an opportunity to better focus on the programme and its deliverables.”