Delhi releases Rs 108 crore for 12 fully funded govt colleges

Education Minister Ashish Sood said that the grant will be utilised to pay the salaries of teachers and staff, maintenance of college buildings, and for other essential capital expenditures in these colleges.

“The government remains fully committed to strengthening the quality of higher education institutions in Delhi. The release of this grant will further reinforce both the financial and academic conditions of these colleges; (ensure) no teacher or student faces a shortage of resources,” Sood said.

The colleges to receive the fund are Acharya Narendra Dev College, Aditi Mahavidyalaya, Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, Bhagini Nivedita College, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education & Sports Sciences, Keshav Mahavidyalaya, Maharaja Agrasen College, Maharshi Valmiki College of Education, Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women, and Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies.

Sood informed that the Delhi government has also separately released around ₹24 crore for building maintenance, electricity and water facilities, and other essential amenities across these 12 colleges to ensure that necessary infrastructure improvements are carried out on a priority basis.

Taking a dig at the previous governments, the minister said that they either failed to release grants or delayed them, risking the future of the students studying in these colleges. “As soon as our government came into power, we assessed the infrastructure and financial needs of all educational institutions in Delhi. If institutions are not financially sound, they cannot produce capable and competent students,” he said, claiming that the previous government looked for excuses not to work and acted only for political mileage.