Delhi University — economics honours

Du in it's prospectus 2019 for the ug course clearly stated that now mathematics is to be included among the best 4 subjects for economics honours and it's completely wrong as earlier since so many years the criteria for economics honours was only to qualify maths. Changes have been usually made in reservation percentage but this will shatter the dreams of many students. This is not justified. There are a number of students who opted for mathematics as their sixth subject and worked very hard in the first five subjects because the eligibility criteria for economics honours was clear - math must only be qualified in class 12th. And the reason du is providing is that this will ensure that the students will face no problem in the mathematical portion which is to be studied for economics honours, but i too have studied economics in plus two and there is a very basic level of math in economics. Also, du should've informed the students earlier about this. When i decides to opt for humanities in class 11th i first searched the eligibility criteria for economics honours in du which was language + economics + other two subjects and maths must be qualified and it was clearly stated that maths must only be qualified and it's your own choice whether you want to include it in best four subjects or not. This is very obvious that based on this a number of students must have studied math only to get passing marks and they must have focussed on their other four subjacts for which we cannot blame them. Because i believe that before opting for any stream a person must search for it and must keep a backup option which i did as i knew that if god forbid i won't get good marks in maths i would get excellent marks in the other four subjects. But now many students like me are facing this problem. This is absolutely wrong. Therefore, i request the university to kindly change this criteria and it's completely unjustified and it's like playing with the future of a number of aspirants who have worked very hard and have done all that they could to get into the top colleges of du.