Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad
Delhi University Students’ Union Election 2011
Student Charter : 2011-12
Friends,
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) since its inception has believed that a student is not just a citizen of tomorrow but a citizen of today. This becomes more evident in the contemporary context of the problems that are being faced by our nation and the role of the students to tackle them cannot be undermined. Problems like corruption, terrorism, Maoist violence and commercialization of education clearly indicate that students should come forward and take action to counter them.
ABVP is working in the field of education with a wider vision of National Reconstruction. The ABVP has been active on various campuses across the country. Through agitations and other constructive activities ABVP has been continuously sensitizing the student community on various threats posed to our national unity.
ABVP considers Delhi University to be one of the most important centers of student activities. ABVP reiterates its position of neither compromising with national interest nor with the aspirations and interests of the student community at any cost. At a time when opportunistic and totalitarian forces are conspiring to destabilize and jeopardize the national integrity and democratic ethos of India, the role of ABVP becomes crucial to thwart their ulterior designs.
Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) election 2011-12 is taking place amidst acute national crisis, which is systemic as well as ideological. In such a critical situation when various groups are hankering for their share of the pie by sacrificing national interests; by voting ABVP the student community of Delhi University would strengthen the nationalist spirit. ABVP led Union will stand for selfless dedication to India that is Bharat, its unity and integrity.
Delhi University is one of the premier educational hub of this country. Therefore students’ union election is considered to be very important. The organization which is contesting against ABVP is the student wing of the party which is heading the governments, both at centre and state. Both these governments and their heads are facing corruption charges. If the main organization is so involved in corruption then there is little left to the imagination of the kind of student leaders they would be producing.
From time to time, ABVP led students’ Union has consistently tried to raise the concerns of student community at each and every level. However, there are still various issues which demand more attention and prompt response from student leadership.
• In last 12 years not a single new college was opened in Delhi University.
• There is unavailability of professional courses in colleges of Delhi University which is compelling student community to take admission in private institutions coughing up large amounts of money due to their exorbitantly high fee structure.
• Due to lack of hostel facilities on the campus, the nonresident students have been facing a plethora of problems.
• Students are also facing academic problems due to anomalies in University’s Internal Assessment Scheme.
• Safety and security of female students remains a big concern.
• Students of Delhi University are yet to get Metro Rail Concession for their day to day travel.
ABVP has over 42 years of glorious and successful history of its presence on this campus and earnestly believes that once again students of this campus will give their mandate to the candidates of ABVP and pose their faith in us. We commit ourselves to give the students of Delhi University good and honest representation of their voices. If elected, we believe that our candidates would
live up to the expectations of the student community of this campus
raise their issues and concerns
strive hard to get their problems solved
What an ABVP-led Union will stand for:
1. Open New Colleges
• It is now a well known fact that not a single new college was opened in Delhi University in the last 12 years. More than 1,85,000 students aspire for around 54,516 seats in Delhi University. This scarcity of seats leaves more than 1 lakh students deprived of an opportunity to study in this prestigious University.
In the last couple of years alone this country has seen scams worth 1 lakh 76 thousand crore (2G scam) and 70 thousand crore (CWG scam). The present governments at centre and state level i.e. the parent body of NSUI is directly involved in these scams. If this money was properly utilized then we could have seen number of new colleges in Delhi University.
ABVP led Union would demand for more seats and colleges in different parts of Delhi.
2. Job oriented Courses with Affordable Fee Structure
• In the changing scenario, more professional and job oriented courses are needed with affordable fee structure, but it has been seen that Delhi University is not coming up with new courses. ABVP led Union would demand the University administration to open new professional courses like Animation, Retail management, Public Relations, Travel and Tourism, Performing Arts, Information Technology, Bio Technology, Business and Economics with an affordable fee structure.
3. Demand for East and West Campus
• We demand that facilities provided by all the colleges should be uniform and administration should be decentralized. So we would struggle for the establishment of East and West Campuses and also demand for a Law Faculty at the East campus would be placed.
4. Educational Infrastructure and other issues
• We would continue to raise its earlier demand to spend 10% of the total amount of central budget on Education.
• We would also demand to provide free internet facility (Wi-Fi) to the each and every department and University hostels.
• We would demand to introduce evening classes in every college of the university so that more and more students can avail the facilities of this prestigious university.
• We would demand to arrange U-Special buses and Generators for the evening classes.
• We would demand to increase the number of beds in the university health centre.
• We would demand to inter-link all the libraries of Delhi University.
• We would demand the University libraries to remain open 24x7
• A great number of students belong to Hindi heartland. They feel problem with unavailability of books and other study materials in Hindi. ABVP would demand to arrange all the study material and books in Hindi.
• We would demand the University administration to provide for a special department to provide assistance to DU students coming from various parts of country. We demand that the stadium made during Common Wealth Games should be open for common students.
• We demand that there should be a large capacity auditorium in the north campus.
• There should be more equipments and lab-technicians in science laboratories.
• University should open new subsidized rate canteens in north and south campus.
• We would demand for setting up of Coordination Committee of Private Hostel owners, Land Lords and Students.
5. Fee Structure
• The ABVP is of the opinion that there should be uniformity in fee structure in all the DU colleges. Various aspects of fee structure of the university would be analyzed to make it logical and affordable.
6. Reforms in Admission Process
• We would demand from the authorities to make admissions through sports, cultural and other quotas more transparent.
7. Fill vacant Seats
• We would also try to get the vacant OBC seats in various colleges filled.
8. Examination Reforms
• We demand time bound declaration of examination results
• A demand will be placed to make an academic calendar of the whole year and make it available to students on DU website.
• We would demand from the authorities to upload the answer-sheets of top 5 rankers online.
9. Internal Assessment
• We would try to do away with the anomalies in the University’s Internal Assessment Procedure.
10. Transportation
• We would fight for getting student concession Pass in Delhi Metro & Metro feeder buses.
• We would continue our struggle to increase the services of DTC U-Special buses.
• We would also struggle to reduce the student fare of DTC buses and demand for better connectivity of NCR with the different colleges of Delhi University.
• We would demand shuttle bus services between North and South Campus.
11. Hostel Facility
• In the last few years, the Number of students has increased many folds but number of hostels hasn’t increased in the same proportion. ABVP would pressurize University administration to plan for new hostels and to ensure maintenance and up gradation of existing hostels.
• We would demand mandatory hostel facilities for Girls’ Colleges considering the security aspect of the female students.
12. Scholarship
• We would work for the increment in scholarships and demand to link scholarship with price index.
• We would also struggle for uniformity in scholarships to SC/ST/PH students irrespective of the state they come from.
• We would demand for establishment of “Economic Assistance Committee” to manage a link between Industry-Student-NGOs in order to provide assistance to economically-weak students.
13. Secure and Fear-Free Campus
• ABVP led a successful movement for the safety of girl students after the murder of Radhika Tanwar, a student of South Campus. To make female students more self confident we would organise self-defense Training Camps in various colleges and university campus.
• We would continue with our demand to make North Campus a closed and compact campus.
• We would demand for a 24x7 helpline for students.
14. Placement Cell
• We would work towards making the Placement Cell of Delhi University - effective, meaningful and job-oriented. We would strive hard to increase Industry-Institute interaction.
We promise that ABVP led DUSU would pursue the aforementioned agenda and will always work for a good, academic and secure environment which provides for creative & constructive student activism on the campus.
We promise that we would consistently struggle till our demands of providing better facilities to the students’ community is not met completely, in order to keep in place the culture of healthy academic environment.
The ABVP is totally aware and concerned about its responsibilities and duties towards the students and youth of this great nation. So it promises that through DUSU it would work for their best and try to live up to their expectations. We call upon the student community of Delhi University to take active participation in the forthcoming DUSU elections and wholeheartedly support and elect the ABVP’s candidates.
BHARAT MATA KI JAI
VANDE MATRAM
