New Delhi Apr 25 PTI Left-affiliated All India Students Association on Monday condemned the Delhi University notice asking students to mandatorily take prior permission from the varsity to hold protests and demanded its withdrawalThe body said the notice is only a means of curbing democratic practice in the campus and the AISA will never seek permission for a protest from the DU administrationAISA and other left organizations submitted a memorandum to the Dean Students Welfare concerning the notice issued by DU Proctor Rajni Abbi asking students to take prior permission before holding protests and other programmes Students said neither have the students ever taken permission before nor will they seek it now This notice is only a means of increasing surveillance and curbing democratic practice in the campus and students of DU unanimously reject it the AISA saidWe will never ask for your permission to protest in our own campus it said AISA condemns this authoritarian act of the Proctor and demands immediate scrapping of the notice they saidMeanwhile the Krantikari Yuva Sangathan KYS wrote an open letter to the Delhi University Proctor condemning the recent notice This right cannot be curbed by any illegal ordernotice of DU authorities Even the notice mentions that protestsdemonstrations are the legal right of every individual yet in a very contradictory manner mentions that permission is to be taken for organizing protest demonstrations they saidKYS asked the Proctors office to immediately withdraw the noticeMoreover it should apologize to the students for coming out with such an anti-democratic notice and ensure that democratic ethos of the university is not destroyed and the constitutional rights of every citizen are upheld KYS said PTI SLB TDS TDS

New Delhi Apr 23 PTI The Delhi University has issued a notice asking students to mandatorily take prior permission from the varsity to hold protestsEarlier this month the university had issued an advisory to students to maintain law and order on the campus and focus on preparations for their upcoming examsDelhi University proctor Rajni Abbi said the latest notice was issued keeping in view the incidents in the last few daysA student told us that he had been sitting on a hunger strike for the last four days We did not even know it What do we do if something happens to the student she saidAbbi said they have made it compulsory for students to seek permission from the proctors office for holding protestsWe are not going to deny permission to anyone There is always a possibility that outsiders might come and do something mischievous This is also for the safety of the students We do not want students to destroy university property and that is a new point that we have added which was not there in the earlier notification she told PTIShe said not only has the notice been posted on the university website but sent to all the student organisationsPrior intimation of gatheringprotestdemonstration anywhere in the university is mandatory Although protestsdemonstrations are the legal right of every individual yet prior permission from the proctors office is mandatory read the notice issued on FridayIt is also directed that the participants shall refrain from using violence and any destruction to public property failing which the organisers will be held responsible for any damage and strict action will be taken it addedThe notice stated that the organisers should furnish details about their college or department contact number e-mail address and course name at least 24 hours in advanceThe organisers are also supposed to furnish details of programmes which includes nature of the programme protest public speech dharna GBM rally etc duration use of logistics list of speakers and expected number of participants PTI SLB SRY

New Delhi Dec 17 PTI Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh on Friday appointed new officials for important posts a day after many senior office-bearers were relieved of their posts The team was announced in the Executive Council meeting Prof Balaram Pani will continue as Dean of Colleges while Prakash Singh has been appointed as DirectorSouth Campus Prof Rajni Abbi will be the proctor of the university while Payal Mago has been chosen as the director of School of Open Learning Professor Pankaj Arora has been appointed as the Dean Student Welfare Senior university officials including pro-vice-chancellor P C Joshi had tendered their resignations on Thursday Director of South Campus Suman Kundu Proctor Neeta Sehgal and Dean of Students Welfare Rajeev Gupta submitted their resignations as well PTI SLB HDA