New Delhi: The Delhi University's Department of Commerce, in a faculty meeting on Wednesday, has approved the semester-based syllabi for the honours programme and BA programme commerce papers.

The new B.Com honours course will comprise of 26 papers, instead of the original 22 and the B.Com programme will have 24 papers instead of 16 earlier. The faculty has also brought down the number of optional papers from four to two.

K V Bhanumurthy, head, Commerce and Business department said that the total workload will be maintained and the number of lectures will be more or less the same. He also added that some optional papers have been made compulsory now and all functional areas of management are now mandatory.

The two new compulsory papers are International Business and Indirect Taxation. Only one teacher, out of other 45 faculty members, dissented against the passing of the syllabi.