Condemning Delhi Government’s plan to bring 12 DU colleges under Dr. Ambedkar University: Ajay Maken

Shri Ajay Maken also condemned the Delhi Government’s move to bring 12 colleges under the Dr Ambedkar University, which would not only be an encroachment on the autonomous powers of Delhi Unviersity, but also affect the quality of education in these 12 colleges. He said such a move would also directly affect 20,000 students who are currently enrolled in these colleges. Shri Maken said the Congress party would oppose any attempt to bring the following 12 colleges under the Ambedkar University. (Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, Keshav Mahavidyalaya, Acharya Narendra Dev College, Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar college, Shaheed Rajguru College, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Maharaja Agrasen College, Aditi Mahavidyalaya, Bhagini Nivedita College, Bhaskaracharya College of  Applied Sciences, Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science and Mahirishi Balmiki College of Education.

“The AAP Government is plotting yet another assault on the autonomy of Delhi University by trying to shift  the 12 colleges of Delhi University (a Central university) that receives full financial grant by the Delhi Government to the Ambedkar University (a State university)”, Shri Maken noted. He said these are constituent colleges of Delhi University formed on the basis of a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the University and the Government, and hence are bound by the Acts, Statutes and Ordinance of the University, and conditions laid therein.

Shri Maken said the Congress party, along with the students and teachers, would mount an agitation to stop the Kejriwal Government from arbitrarily shifting these colleges to the Ambedkar University.