Vijay Goel meets Manish Sisodia on admissions

After meeting deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, who also holds the education portfolio, BJP Rajya Sabha member Vijay Goel claimed that Mr Sisodia has agreed to his demand for providing preference to Delhiites in DU admissions. Mr Goel said if required, both the leaders will meet HRD minister Smriti Irani to discuss the issue further.

On Saturday, a delegation, led by Mr Goel, met Mr Sisodia and discussed with him the injustice being done to over two lakh city students who pass senior secondary exam from the national capital every year and are not getting admission in their own state.

After the meeting, Mr Geol claimed that Mr Sisodia agreed to all the three demands raised by him and assured that he will work for the betterment of Delhi students.

Mr Goel demanded that 85 per cent quota should be reserved for Delhi students in 28 colleges, funded by the Delhi government, out of the total 61 colleges in Delhi University, five per cent relaxation must be given on the cut-off list to the students who have passed senior secondary from Delhi in preference to students that come from the other states and there should be an entrance test across colleges in DU so that students who resort to unfair practices such as corruption, cheating, representing false marksheet and other malpractice in order to secure admission in Delhi University could be stopped.

”There are 18 colleges in DU which are 100 per cent funded by the Delhi government. We must definitely keep 85 per cent reservation for Delhi students in these colleges. Colleges such as Delhi Technology University, Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology and Guru Gobind Singh IP University already have 85 per cent reservation for Delhi students,” said Mr Goel.

Mr Goel also appealed to Mr Sisodia that the Delhi government should open new universities and colleges and should also start evening classes in the already-run Delhi government colleges.