Weeks after scrapping it, Telangana Council of Higher Education restores bucket system in UG

Bucket system will be reinstated for the academic year 2025-26; it allows students to pick their undergraduate subjects from a pool

Hyderabad: Just a few weeks into the decision to abolish the bucket system that allows students to pick their undergraduate subjects from a pool, the system has been reinstated.

During a recent meeting with the Telangana Council of Higher Education officials, Education Department Secretary Dr. Yogita Rana and Commissioner of Collegiate Education A Sri Devasena are said to have expressed strong objections to the TGCHE’s decision to scrap the bucket system and reinstate the same for the academic year 2025-26.

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According to sources, higher education department officials expressed their ire over TGCHE’s decision, besides questioning the unilateral move. They were of the view that an expert committee should have been constituted, and recommendations should have been sought on the issue instead of making a unilateral decision that could lead to chaos.

Earlier, the TGCHE scrapped the bucket system as per the unanimous decision of the conventional universities’ vice-chancellors during a meeting held on April 4.

Introduced in 2021, the bucket system allows students to choose their subjects from the list of four buckets in the same faculty. For instance, a student opting for a BA programme can pick combinations from buckets A, B, C and D, which have a pool of subjects.

The universities’ officials contended that this system has been causing significant imbalances in the admissions, with subjects like computer science witnessing high enrollment, while the less popular subjects in the arts are struggling to fill seats.