Delhi University (DU) Vice Chancellor (VC) Professor Yogesh Singh took strong exception to the less attendance of members in the 92nd Annual Court Meeting of University of Delhi. He also directed Registrar Dr Vikas Gupta to send notice to all the Heads of Departments, principals, deans and professors who were absent in the meeting.
Meanwhile, at the beginning of the meeting, the VC while highlighting the university informed that in the academic session 2024-25, there were 69 colleges and 79 programmes for undergraduate admission for which the number of registered candidates was 2,46,194.
Presenting the data of promotions and appointments of the last three and a half years, he said till now a total of 7,423 promotions have been made on academic posts in various colleges and departments, out of which 7019 promotions have been made in colleges and 404 in the departments of the university.
The VC said DU is continuously expanding itself. Giving information about engineering projects, he said that work is going on on the various projects at a cost of `1838.41 crore.
He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation stone of two new campuses and a college of DU on January 3, 2025. He said that the East campus to be built in Surajmal Vihar will meet the growing demand for higher education in East Delhi and the West campus to be built in Dwarka Sector 22 will provide access to quality education to the students of West Delhi.
Referring to the new academic initiatives taken in the university, the VC said MTech Computer Science programme is being started in the Computer Science Department with 30 seats from this year.
Apart from this, many new programs have been started including BA (Hons) in Russian, DM (Geriatric Mental Health), DM(Pulmonary Medicine), M.Sc. Psychiatry (Mental Health), DM in Geriatric Mental Health.
Giving detailed information about the Skill Enhancement (SEC) courses, the VC said the most popular among them is the “Personality Development and Communication” course. In this academic session, 38,642 students have chosen this subject.
