The Chairperson, Expert Committee on API, University Grants Commission, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi 30.4.2015 Dear Sir/Madam, With reference to your request for responses, kindly find attached our Note on how the PBAS based on API scores has done tremendous damage to both teaching and research, because of which it should be scrapped altogether. Sincerely, Nandita Narain Sachidanand Sinha (President, FEDCUTA) (Secretary, FEDCUTA) WHY THE PBAS BASED ON API SCORES SHOULD BE SCRAPPED COMPLETELY Ever since the new PBAS based on API scores was proposed as an idea, the DUTA and the FEDCUTA have been of the view that the quantification of teachers’ performance is neither desirable nor serves the purpose of improving the quality of Higher Education. It can be argued that it is antithetical to the teaching-learning process as well as quality research. Most of the object