The Delhi government and Delhi University have locked horns over funds to the Government aided colleges. Well placed sources in the government said that the education department issues sufficient Grant - In - Aid ( GIA ) funds to its colleges.
It is important to mention here that Delhi University and Arvind Kejriwal government have been locked in a tussle over the formation of governing bodies in 28 colleges with 12 of them being fully funded and 16 partially funded by the city government.
Colleges often claim that they been unable to pay salaries to their staffs due to insufficient grants released by the government. Refuting claims of colleges, sources in Delhi government shared the yearly funding to few government aided colleges.
Interestingly, at times when staffers of these colleges complain about less funds in their accounts, the government’s data reveals - Delhi government’s grant - in - aid ( GIA) Rs 1.95 crore to Maharaja Agarsen College, Rs 2.70 crore to Acharya Narendradev College, Rs 1.44 crore to IGIPES , 1.80 crore to Bhaskracharya College, Rs 1.69 crore to Shaheed Rajguru College and Rs 2.48 crore to B R Ambedkar College.
Earlier, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who also holds portfolio of Education Minister, has said that the inability of Delhi government funded DU colleges to pay salaries to their staffers despite a 70 percent budget increase in five years indicates corruption. There had been no dearth of funds as the government has been releasing funds to these colleges, Sisodia added.