Forum of Academics for Social Justice (teachers’ organization) has written a letter to the Ministry of Education and the University Grants Commission demanding that a residential coaching academy should be opened in Delhi University for the preparation of examinations like All India Administrative Services. At present, residential coaching academy for students is running in Jamia Millia Islamia (Delhi) from where students are passing in Indian Administrative Service and other services every year.
Forum Chairman Dr. Hansraj Suman has written in a letter to the Ministry of Education and the University Grants Commission that today most of the universities arrange residential facilities for their students for the preparation of UPSC and other All India examinations. Jamia Millia Islamia (Delhi) has also established an academy for its students with permission from the University Grants Commission.
Therefore, on the same lines, such an academy in Delhi University should also be approved by the University Grants Commission.He has also told in the letter that there is a need for a residential coaching academy in DU because Delhi University is a central university, where a large number of students prepare for administrative and other competitive examinations. Most of these students are from Dalit, backward and deprived communities. These students coming from neglected society do not have adequate facilities for study.In such a situation, despite all the talent, students from marginalized communities fail in All India examinations and administrative services examinations.
If the university makes arrangements for accommodation and free coaching for these students, then these students can also provide their services in high level jobs. At present, the fees of all the private coaching institutes across the country are very high. In such a situation, it is impossible for the incapable poor talented students to pay the fees. Dr. Hansraj Suman told the Ministry of Education and the University Grants Commission that there is a hub of coaching centers near Vijay Nagar, Kingsway Camp, Parmanand Nagar, Mukherjee Nagar, Model Town for the preparation of Administrative Services and other All India Services examinations around Delhi University, but their fees are beyond the reach of the common man.
Housing facilities here are limited and expensive. Dr. Suman also informed that for the preparation of Indian Administrative Service and other examinations, only those students who have graduate and postgraduate degrees from Delhi University and who come from affluent families are able to take coaching here. Therefore, on the lines of Jamia Millia Islamia (Delhi), Delhi University should also establish a residential coaching academy in its campus after taking approval from the University Grants Commission for the students coming from neglected, deprived, backward and EWS category. So that students from neglected and economically weak families can also get access to administrative services. This will also increase the prestige of Delhi University and the university will be placed in the best list by NAAC.