Delhi Legislative Assembly has passed the Delhi Skills and Entrepreneurship University Bill on the last day of the Assembly session on Tuesday. The university will emulate the highly successful models in Australia, Germany, Finland, and Brazil to provide jobs and provide admissions to about one lakh students every year.
“Delhi Skills and Entrepreneurship University (DESU) Bill will provide a solution to the increasing unemployment and economic slowdown in the country,” said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
While presenting the Bill in the House, Manish Sisodia, Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister said “Today, a big dream comes true. Nearly half of the population in India is under 25. They should get dignified and quality education as their right. This university will create not only job seekers but also job givers”.
The University will have professionals, senior professors and experts from their respective fields to manage and teach students who will be enrolled in the college. Further, it will have three unique features: first, the university will design and run courses in consonance with the industry requirements. Secondly, there will be a dedicated unit to research on the market trends and requirements in a futuristic way, so that continuous updating of the courses and pedagogy can be systematically achieved; third, tie-up with industrial establishments to produce and assimilate the graduates”.
“Many legislators and parliamentarians told me that attendance for the last day of the last session of any assembly or parliament is usually low, as the members are busy with election campaigns. The high attendance today shows the confidence level of the legislators that they would definitely come back to this legislature in order to implement the bills passed by this house. So we are working rigorously even on the last day. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government is determined and dedicated to work for the welfare of the people of Delhi till the last breath,” he said.
Targeting the Leaders of Opposition (LoP) the CM said, “Those who boycotted the discussion on this historic bill might have gone for election campaign. There are two types of students: one is always engaged in studies, while the other is those who study only in the eve of the examination. The first category will not have the fear of examination. As the AAP government and our legislators are fully immersed in development works in Delhi, we have no fear of elections. We are part of ‘work in progress’. So, we are confident of coming back to power with four more seats,” Kejriwal said.