This newspaper recently reported (‘The Fourth-Year Trap’, IE , October 26) on yet another imbroglio involving the implementation of FYUP (Four-Year Undergraduate Programme) in the University of Delhi, centred this time on the problems faced by those fourth-year pass-outs who thought they had a last-minute ticket to the one-year PG programme, but were turned away at the boarding gate. That ticket was part of the hard sell that has surrounded FYUP, which has included a slew of offers and incentives to make it work. Hard-selling without the inventory to back up what’s being offered results in irate customers. Many students who have been denied admission to the one-year PG course based on priority parameters set by the university have moved the courts seeking relief.

The FYUP problem is entangled with the larger story around the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.…