Delhi University is all set to build three new campuses in southwest Delhi, east Delhi and west Delhi. The university, which has bought land in Dwarka, will start working on the new campus in the coming days. The School of Law will then be shifted to the new campus. The east Delhi campus will be set up in Karkardooma.
Attending his first academic council meeting, DU vice-chancellor Prof. Yogesh Tyagi revealed these details to the council members. The university will soon take steps to set up these three new campuses, he said. “At the academic council meeting, the vice-chancellor gave us information regarding the varsity’s three new campuses. DU already has land for the campus to be built in Karkardooma and preparation has already started to run some courses here. On the other hand, the task of finding land for the west Delhi campus has begun,” said academic council member Dr R.N. Dubey.
Safdarjung Hospital’s Vardhaman Mahavir Medical College and Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital’s Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research have now been made a part of the Delhi University. The affiliation proposal has been approved by the university’s academic council. Both the medical colleges had been affiliated to the Delhi government’s Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University since 2008.
“Including these two colleges, the DU will now have total of six medical colleges affiliated to it. With the DU affiliation, only 15 per cent seats will be reserved for Delhi students and the remaining 85 per cent seats will be for students outside Delhi. So far, due to the IPU affiliation, 50 per cent of the seats were reserved for Delhi students. Since the DU is a Central university, new rules will be applied to these colleges,” Dr Dubey said.
As discussed in the academic council meeting, the university will also introduce reference books for history honours and programme courses in Hindi so that Hindi medium students don’t face difficulty while preparing notes.
From the next session, colleges like Jesus and Mary, Kalindi and Ramanujan will launch undergraduate vocational courses in health care management, retail management, web designing and IT among others.
