A day after Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia blamed six government-subsidized Delhi University (DU) schools of misuse of funds, administrators of a few DU schools called his announcements “unjustifiable” and “unverified”.
On Wednesday, Sisodia had blamed the organizations for Keshav Mahavidyalaya, Deen Dayal Upadhyay College, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies and Bhagini Nivedita College of having crores of rupees lying in school accounts while saying they can’t pay their staff pay rates because of reserve lack. He had said this was uncovered in a fundamental report of a unique review started by the administration in the schools.
On Thursday, the Delhi University Principals’ Association held a question and answer session to denounce Sisodia’s claims. In participation were administrators of in any event 11 universities — including Hindu, Miranda House, and SGTB Khalsa — separated from those schools against which Sisodia had raised allegations.
Accordingly, Sisodia kept on asserting absence of straightforwardness in the universities and addressed how they have brought assets up in school fixed stores.
In an announcement Thursday, he stated: “… cash in their FDs is reliably expanding. This cash isn’t given by Delhi government to store in the FD. A few universities have FDs that have up to Rs 15 crore-Rs 30 crore. What bit of this cash has originated from which source? How is it being utilized? This should be explored by the review group. I trust the DU organization will co-work… in researching the chance of defilement… “
The prinicpals, notwithstanding, held that the cash in school accounts, which Sisodia alluded to, was in the universities’ understudy society accounts and can’t be utilized to pay staff pay rates.
“We deny the charges and denounce them. Such proclamations are not anticipated from the workplace of training priest… These assets are created from understudies and are to be utilized for understudy driven purposes, for example, extra-curricular turn of events, understudy exercises, enrollment drives, celebrations. Any preoccupation of assets would add up to misappropriation,” said Jaswinder Singh, DUPA president and head of SGTB Khalsa College.
Among the charges that Sisodia had raised was that one of the universities had spent Rs 25 lakh on “gifts”. Fundamental perceptions report of the uncommon review expressed: “During FY 2017-18, the school gave Rs 25 lakh for ‘Atal Incubation Center’ out of the understudy society subsidize account.”
“It is an incredibly untrustworthy articulation to allude to the Rs 25 lakh as a ‘gift’. It has been submitted — and not spent — by the school as seed cash for expertise advancement through an Atal Incubation Center. It has been done from the Student Society Account for an understudy driven reason,” said Manoj Sinha, DUPA secretary and head of Aryabhatta College.
As indicated by an announcement delivered by the affiliation, the reserve necessity from the administration in the current budgetary year is Rs 270 crore over the 12 universities completely subsidized by it. “Preferably, 75% of the necessary award, for example Rs 202.5 crore, ought to have been delivered before July 2020, while just Rs 37.5 crore has been delivered till date,” read DUPA’s announcement.
In the announcement, they additionally scrutinized the premise on which schools were chosen for the uncommon review. “Is it on the grounds that the individuals from their decision couldn’t be chosen as administrator in the administering body of these schools? On the off chance that that is in this way, it adds up to leaving the majority rule measure,” it said.
