Buzz around Delhi: New
Delhi: Friday, April 25, 2014.
The proposal
of Delhi government for the reservation of 85% seats for the Delhi domicile
students in all 12 colleges wholly funded by state government and other 16
colleges receiving 5% of its fund from Delhi government, has been rejected by
the University of Delhi on the 16th of April 2014. This break has been unfolded
by an RTI application filed by Abhishek Ranjan, RTI Activist who is an
ex-student of the University on 3rd March. These colleges include Maharaja
Agrasen College, Shaheed Rajguru College, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business
Studies, Keshav Mahavidyalaya and Deen Dayal Upadhayay College.
Ranjan had
appealed to the Prime Minister Office (PMO) directly for getting first hand
information on the issue. On receiving his application, the PMO forwarded it to
Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry. The University was then asked to
provide answers to Ranjan's letter no. F.No.63-4(3)/2014-CU-III, dated 14th
March 2014.
"Being a
law student, I wanted to know whether such reservation can be allowed in a
Central University. I filed the RTI asking if such proposal can be accepted by
any Central University, whether there has been any such proposal in DU and if
yes, what decisions have been taken on the matter. According to me if this kind
of reservation is allowed in DU now, then people will start asking for similar
reservations in other universities like JNU," says Ranjan. He added that
new colleges should be open, number of seats should be increased and even
introduction of evening shifts in colleges can be there in order to solve the
problem of admissions of the Delhi domicile students.
R.K. Verma,
Principal Secretary of Department of IT had written to Dinesh Singh, Vice
Chancellor of Delhi University on 25th February 2014, asking for reservations
and mentioning that the students of Delhi have to go outside Delhi for pursuing
higher studies because of lack of institutions in Delhi which could provide
admission to all students passing their higher secondary exam from the schools
of Delhi. On 27th March 2014, the Assistant Registrar (Academics) of Delhi
University in his reply mentioned that the proposal submitted by the University
for the Reservation of seats can't be accepted, Delhi University being a
Central University.
Nandita
Narain, the President of DUTA expresses her views on the matter, "We, at
DUTA, totally agree with the decision of the University. Diversity from all
over the country is one of the highlighting features of our university. The
proposal by Sheila Dixit government was totally an unacceptable one on the
grounds of Delhi University being a Central University and not a State
University."
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