The Delhi authorities has launched one other Rs 100 crore for 12 faculties which can be totally funded by it beneath Delhi College (DU). Launched following Chief Minister Atishi’s approval, it goals to deal with ongoing monetary issues which have hampered operations and brought about disruptions in school and employees advantages, officers mentioned.
In April final 12 months, the federal government had launched its first tranche of Rs 100 crore for the universities and the second Rs 100 crore tranche this July.
The federal government and these faculties have had a long-standing tussle, with the previous insisting that funds could be launched solely after governing our bodies are constituted in line with guidelines. Academics, nevertheless, have accused the federal government of delaying salaries.
The most recent installment is an element of a bigger budgetary provision of roughly Rs 400 crore that the federal government has allotted to those faculties for the present monetary 12 months. “For the reason that AAP authorities got here to energy, funding for these faculties has tripled. In 2014-15, these faculties have been allotted Rs 132 crore, which has now elevated to roughly Rs 400 crore within the present monetary 12 months,” the federal government mentioned in a press release.
“Beneath the steering of (former CM) Arvind Kejriwal, schooling has all the time been our high precedence,” Atishi mentioned. She emphasised that the most important share of the state’s funds has been devoted to schooling yearly since AAP assumed workplace. The main focus has not solely been on main and secondary faculties but in addition on greater schooling, with the federal government opening three new universities and increasing present ones. “The 12 totally funded DU faculties play a vital function in greater schooling in Delhi,” she added.
Lately, allegations of economic mismanagement in a number of of those faculties had surfaced in addition to problems with delayed salaries and stalled medical and pension advantages for lecturers and employees. “With a concentrate on the welfare of lecturers, and guaranteeing their medical and pension advantages that have been stalled attributable to monetary mismanagement, the Delhi authorities is releasing Rs 100 crore within the third quarter for these 12 Delhi College faculties,” the assertion added.
The Indian Specific had reported in January that the federal government mentioned it might solely clear funding as soon as these institutes have been de-affiliated from DU and have become a part of considered one of Delhi’s state universities. The assertion got here after DU Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh wrote to Union Schooling Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, saying the universities would stay with the varsity and the state ought to proceed funding them.
The 12 totally funded faculties are Acharya Narendra Dev School; Aditi Mahavidyalaya; Bhagini Nivedita School; Bhaskaracharya School; Deen Dayal Upadhyaya School; Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar School; Indira Gandhi Institute of Bodily Schooling and Sports activities Sciences; Keshav Mahavidyalaya; Maharaja Agrasen School; Maharshi Valmiki School of Schooling; Shaheed Rajguru School; and Shaheed Sukhdev School of Enterprise Research.
