Ambedkar University, the State funded varsity in the national Capital, got its new campus on Wednesday with the Government planning to come up with two more by 2020.
BR Ambdekar University, which was established by Delhi Government in 2008, is a State funded university with student strength of 1,800. So far, the varsity has been operating from its campus in Kashmeri Gate where 40 undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes are offered.
“More than half of 2.5 lakh students, who pass out of schools every year, are not able to make it to the colleges for higher studies. They either dropout, or make it to the colleges outside Delhi or get admission into the private colleges paying a hefty amount. How can we accommodate them,” asked Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia while inaugurating the BR Ambedkar University campus at Karampura area.
Two new campuses in Rohini and Dheerpurare are scheduled to function from 2020.
“The proportion of increasing the seats every year by 10 to 100 will not work. Over 2.5 lakh students out of 26 lakh, including that of 16 lakh from the Government schools, pass out every year from the schools,” he said.
He also stressed upon improving the quality of education and increasing the seats. Speaking on the occasion, Punya Salila Shrivastava, Secretary, Education, elaborated upon the key initiatives taken by the Delhi Government this year by opening Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences & Research University, 9 polytechnics that were upgraded to Institutes of Technology and affiliated to IP University and are running BVoc courses with over 900 seats.