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Several members of Delhi University's statutory bodies wrote to Vice Chancellor Yogesh Singh on January 2, 2023, to express their dissatisfaction with the denial of the extension of governing bodies (GB) of Delhi government-funded colleges. In a letter, eight Academic Council (AC) and Executive Council (EC) members accused the university of suggesting GB members' names without consulting the statutory bodies and alleged that the panel of names suffers from "political partisanship" as a result of the non-consultation. The university made no immediate response.

The Delhi government fully or partially funds the 28 DU colleges and chooses the 10 members of their governing bodies. The government directly chooses five members of a governing body, while the remainder are picked from names given by a university panel.

As per the letter, "The university administration has not given an extension of three months (to governing bodies) despite such a provision under Clause 3(1) of Order XVIII. There have been long-standing conventions for such extensions despite the different political strands of the central and state governments. Even the panel of 178 names has been sent by the administration to the Delhi government without any consultation with members of AC and EC, which has been a long-standing precedent."

Members pointed out that this is also inconsistent with Clause A-1 of EC Resolution 51, 2012, which states that "the panel of names to be sent by the university to the government of Delhi," and Clause 17 of the DU Act 1922, which clearly vests the university's authority in statutory bodies such as the AC and EC.

The signatories are EC members - Seema Das and Rajpal Singh Pawar, and AC members - Asha Jassal, Kapila Mallah, Alok Ranjan Pandey, Sunil Kumar, C M Neg, and Aditya Narayan Misra. The members requested that the names be withdrawn and resent following revision in accordance with the legislative rules.

"Due to this non-consultation, the panel not only suffers from political partisanship but also some discrepancies too. It has the names of the employees of a college and a sitting member of EC who can't become GB members due to Clause 3-1(b) & (c) of EC Resolution 51, 2012. So, we request you to withdraw this panel and send it after revising it as per the statutory provisions. It has been sent by the administration without any consultation with members of AC and EC, which has been a long-standing precedent," the letter read.

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