NEW DELHI: Putting futures at risk of scores of students the Delhi government on Monday stopped the grant of funds in 28 colleges under the Delhi University.
The trigger for such a move originates from the ongoing tussle between the varsity’s administration and the government over the selection of members of the governing bodies in each of these colleges. 12 of them are wholly funded by the Delhi government for the remaining 16 the grant is five percent.
Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Delhi government, Manish Sisodia blasted the varsity on social media platform saying that “I cannot allow unchecked corruption and irregularities to be sustained on Delhi government funds in the name of Education. Have ordered Finance Department to stop funding for Delhi government funded 28 DU colleges, as DU not willing to form governing bodies for last 10 months”.
While the DU administration has said that the government did not follow the right procedures and stipulated guidelines in its suggestions of names for the members of the governing bodies.
“According to the rules, representatives for the GB should come from diverse committees but many colleges had the same type of names, hence they were rejected, EC guidelines were not followed”, said AK Bhagi member Executive Council (EC), Delhi University.
In the last EC meeting held on June 14th the apex decision making the body of the varsity rejected the names suggested by the colleges and formed a sub-committee to look into the matter. The sub-committee has submitted its report to the Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Tyagi, who did not respond after repeated attempts.
However, a member of the Executive council on condition of anonymity stated that “The names suggested by the government were people who are close to the leadership of the party and ministers, there were outsiders too on the list.”
There is a total of 15 members in the governing body of which 10 members are suggested by the Delhi Government, and remaining share is divided equally between the university and the teachers.