Ahead of the Delhi University Students’ Union elections scheduled to be held next month, students’ organisations have become active in the varsity.
The issue of Bar Council of India (BCI) intervening to close down the evening classes of the Faculty of law has become the centre of the election campaign with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) and All India Students’ Association (AISA) bringing it up with the concerning authorities.
Calling the issue “critical”, DUSU president Satender Awana said they have sent a memorandum to Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Tyagi and forwarded a letter to the Ministry of Human Resource and Development requesting them to intervene to resolve the matter.
“This is a critical issue and has been there for many years now. The prospectus mentioned the faculty has a total of 2,400 seats, following which the student came forward to enrollment. But after the BCI’s recommendations the seats have been cut to half the number...we spoke to BCI and it said that if the university gives an undertaking to upgrade the infrastructure in a year, it will reconsider the recommendations,” Awana told the media on Thursday.
The BCI has asked DU to shutdown colleges offering law courses in the evening shifts. The recommendation has been made after a committee of BCI, the apex regulatory body for legal education and legal profession in the country, submitted an adverse report about infrastructure and quality of education imparted at the centres of DU’s law faculty.
The ABVP rules all the four positions of the DUSU at present. Speaking on its reach, the ABVP Delhi secretary Bharat Khatana said the Vidyarthi Parishad has helped 20,000 students in various matters during its term. “We had a membership drive and given the work our organisation has done, 40,000 new members joined us so far. We have been holding Nukkad Nattak across the colleges to grab the attention of new students,” he added.