Former president of Delhi BJP and MLA from Rohini, Vijender Gupta, on Tuesday wrote a letter to Delhi Lieutenant Governor of Delhi V K Saxena, expressing his concern about the possibility of closure of 12 colleges opened during the BJP rule in Delhi by the Delhi Government.

Drawing the attention of the Lieutenant Governor towards this issue, Gupta said the Delhi Government is pushing for closure of these colleges.

Delhi's Education Minister Atishi has written a letter to Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in this regard, in which she has openly expressed her intention to surrender these 12 colleges to the Centre. She has written that the Central Government should take over these colleges under its control as the Delhi Government is unable to provide funds to these colleges, Gupta said.

He said it is on record that when Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) came to power, it had announced opening 5 new colleges every year. Contrary to these announcements, this party has not opened even a single new college affiliated to Delhi University during its 10-year rule in Delhi.

Not only this, the AAP government is bent on closing 12 colleges which were opened during the BJP rule in Delhi. Out of these 12 colleges, many colleges like Deendayal Upadhyay, Acharya Narendra Dev, Bhaskaracharya, Shaheed Sukhdev College have high ranking in the National Institutional Framework.

Gupta said the following problems are being created by the Delhi Government to bring these colleges on the verge of closure. There is a delay of three to five months in the payment of salaries of teaching and non-teaching staff.

Non-payment of retirement benefits due to retired and deceased employees. Non-payment of dues related to Medical claims, LTC, Children Education Allowance, arrears of Seventh Pay Commission.

No recruitment on 600 teaching and 500 non-teaching posts.

From the year 2020 and especially after the letter written by Atishi to the Central Government warning of stopping the funding of these colleges from 01 April 2024, the above problems have become more serious, which is a proof of the failure of the Education Policy of the Delhi Government.

Gupta said the appointments of teachers in the colleges regulated by the University Grant Commission and maintained by the Central Government have almost been completed. But due to the situation created by the Delhi Government, the appointments of teaching and non-teaching staff could not be started in these 12 colleges.

Considering the seriousness of the situation, Gupta appealed to the Lieutenant Governor to intervene against the Delhi Government to save the teachers, other employees and students of these colleges from problems created by Delhi Government to save the future of thousands of students studying in these colleges.