Delhi Higher Education Minister Atishi on Sunday announced that the Delhi Government approved the release of the second quarter installment of 100 crore for its 12 funded colleges of Delhi University.

Atishi asserted that education has always been the biggest priority for the Kejriwal government and Eever since Kejriwal’s government came to power in Delhi, every year the biggest share in the budget is allotted to education.

“Along with schools, the Kejriwal government focused on higher education and opened three new universities and expanded the existing universities. The 12 Delhi University colleges fully funded by the Delhi government play an important role in higher education in Delhi,” she continued.

Atishi added that in 2014-15, Rs 132 crore were allocated to these colleges, which has increased more than threefold to about Rs 400 crores this financial year. She stated, "Many issues of financial mismanagement have come to the fore in these colleges in the last few years, but the Kejriwal government has decided that the teachers and students of those colleges should not suffer due to the mistakes of the management and administration.”

“Keeping in mind the welfare of teachers, their medical benefits, pension benefits which were stuck due to financial mismanagement, Delhi Government is releasing a fund of Rs 100 crore in the second quarter for these 12 colleges of Delhi University," she said.

These 12 Colleges of Delhi University are Acharya Narendra Dev College, Aditi Mahavidyalaya, Bhagini Nivedita College, Bhaskaracharya College, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Keshav Mahavidyalaya, Maharaja Agrasen College, Maharishi Valmiki College, Shaheed Rajguru College and Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies