College of Arts not to be de-affiliated from Delhi University, admissions to begin soon

The Executive Council of the Delhi University, which is its highest decision-making body, refused to de-affiliate the college.

College of Arts not to be de-affiliated from Delhi University, admissions to begin soon

Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh has directed the College of Art to begin the admission process and informed the Delhi government that the college will not be de-affiliated from the varsity. The issues between the 12 DU colleges funded by the city government and the AAP dispensation had arisen due to procedural lapses, and they are being sorted, he further said. 
The office of L-G had earlier given in-principle approval to the merger of the College of Art (CoA) with the state-run Ambedkar University subject to its de-affiliation from DU. However, the Executive Council of the university, which is its highest decision-making body, refused to de-affiliate the college.

In an interview with the PTI, he said, "The proposal was by the college. DU has a system and it has not given a NOC for de-affiliation ever. The university's Executive Council has decided to not give an NOC. We have conveyed our decision to the Delhi government."

"We have written to them to start the admission process. We have told them that we are not de-affiliating you. We will follow what the EC has decided. Students are suffering because of the delay," he said.  The admissions to the fine arts college have been delayed due to the de-affiliation tussle.

"See the problem is that colleges got additional posts created after getting approval from their governing bodies. But they did not take funding approval from the funding agency, which is the Delhi government in this case," Singh said. He said that this had been going on for several years and nobody paid heed to it but when the funding agency saw this, they objected to it. "This is what I have understood so far. It was a procedural lapse and there was an issue of trust deficit," he said.

When asked how it has been sorted now, he said, "We have had meetings with the Delhi government and it has agreed in principle to give one-time approval for all the posts that were created.

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