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Motilal Nehru College Faculty on Indefinite Strike Over Alleged Assault During DUSU Polls

By DU Beat September 25, 2026

Motilal Nehru College (Evening) faculty are on indefinite strike after an alleged assault on a teacher during DUSU campaigning, with senior DU academics warning of a pattern of unchecked violence against faculty.

Classes have come to a halt at Motilal Nehru College (Evening), where faculty walked out indefinitely on September 23 to protest what they call institutional inaction over an assault of a faculty member. The Staff Association’s grievances extend beyond the assault itself to hooliganism, trespassing, and property damage they say marked campaigning for this year’s DUSU elections. Teachers from other DU colleges, along with DUTA representatives, have since shown up in solidarity.

The protest follows another alleged incident of assault on a teacher, who was grievously injured by a student campaigner on September 16 when DUSU campaigning had concluded.

A faculty member said the administration and police have shown no real interest in acting on the incident, and that the strike would continue until it is addressed. The teacher added that all faculty at the college have joined the strike and suspended academic activities from their end until further notice. Teachers have said they intend to file an FIR and boycott further election duty.

Mithuraaj Dhusiya, an elected member of DU’s executive council, linked the incident to a broader pattern, naming Bhim Rao Ambedkar College and the Faculty of Law as earlier sites of similar violence against teachers, and called on the university administration to stop delaying and take firm action against those responsible.

DTF Secretary Abha Dev Habib said the college principal reported repeated attempts to get an FIR registered, without success from police, despite CCTV footage of the incident reportedly being available. He called this, if true, another instance of perpetrators facing no consequences.

Former DU academic council member Rudrashish Chakraborty went further, describing the incident as part of a series of assaults by students affiliated with political organisations against teachers on duty, and he also claimed that no action has been taken even after any of these cases because the perpetrators are being shielded by both the university administration and the party in power at the Centre.

The claims made by Dhusiya and Chakraborty are in reference to incidents at DU in recent years: at Bhim Rao Ambedkar College in October 2025, DUSU Joint Secretary Deepika Jha reportedly entered the campus with around 50 students and slapped a faculty member, an incident for which DU later formed a probe committee. Teachers at Motilal Nehru College are now invoking that precedent as part of a recurring, unaddressed problem tied to DUSU election season.

As of now, classes at Motilal Nehru College (Evening) remain suspended indefinitely.

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Aamna Rehman

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DU students allegedly stalked, eve-teased in North Delhi

By DU Beat September 24, 2026

DU students allege harassment by a group of men near Hakikat Park in Mukherjee Nagar; Delhi Police probe underway.

Two Delhi University (DU) students, pursuing their first year of postgraduate studies, were allegedly stalked and sexually harassed by men driving an SUV. This disgraceful incident occurred near the Hakikat Park in north Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar area on Wednesday night. According to an official statement by the Delhi Police, the two women were also allegedly abused, subjected to eve-teasing and targeted with indecent remarks by the men before they fled the scene.

The First Information Report (FIR) was registered at the Mukherjee Nagar police station, with the investigation being overseen by Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Akansha Yadav. She stated, “Police launched an enquiry based on the complaint and have traced the car allegedly used in the incident. We have identified the four alleged accused, and teams are conducting raids to arrest them.”

According to the complaints, the incident took place near Hakikat Park around 9:30 PM. While the two women were walking, at least four men in an SUV got into a verbal altercation with them, allegedly over not providing enough passage to their vehicle on the street.

“During the altercation, the men allegedly verbally abused the women and made some indecent remarks. They allegedly even followed the women and misbehaved with them before leaving the area,” reported a senior police officer, who pleaded anonymity.

Police have successfully traced the car, including its registration number and the name of its registered owner. Following the completion of the initial inquiry, DCP Akansha Yadav stated, “During the enquiry, the car bearing registration number DL11CF4447, a Safari allegedly involved in the incident, was traced to its registered owner. It was revealed that one Naman was driving the vehicle, accompanied by two or three other persons. We have registered a case and are trying to nab the suspects. Further investigation is in progress.” Naman is reportedly a student of the Faculty of Law at Delhi University.

After the identification of the suspects, Delhi Police has undertaken strict judicial measures and impended FIRs under sections 78, 79 and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

The alleged sexual harassment of the two DU students took place two days after a 17-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped at gunpoint by three men inside Aastha Kunj Park in South Delhi. In light of these demeaning incidents occurring in Delhi, over the last few weeks, has brought up significant levels of debates and insecurities about public safety and especially the security of women in the capital city. The police and the administration have been put under a lot of speculation and scrutiny by the civilians and even the opposition, as these organisations still quest to provide answers to the public and justice to the victims.

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Rajarshi Ghosh

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What Makes a Space Feminist?

By DU Beat September 24, 2026

It seems that every semester, the girls’ colleges of Delhi University are doomed to go through one such event that erodes the very narrative of feminist utopia that has been sold over generations sold to the bright, young women who enrol there. Though the narrative is well-past its retirement stage, a closer look should be taken at what sustains it in the first place that makes it so rooted in the mythology of our college grounds. What is it about the space that allows us to imagine it as feminist? What are the boundaries that make this imagination possible? And what happens when those very boundaries are disrupted?

A gendered space, by its very virtue, isolates itself from its surroundings. By entering the gates of such colleges, one is immediately changed by the space and by what it offers. It has something that you would never find elsewhere—young women claiming space. They are walking, talking, wandering, eating, fighting, sleeping, dancing, playing, running, and most importantly, laughing. It is easy to look at the scene and conclude that this is the definition of “empowered women”.

The location of most such colleges are in one of the more affluent parts of the capital and its rather off-campus nature helps further this illusion. There is no contact or intermingling with people from other DU colleges, to the extent that most of them do not even participate in the elections! It seems that the DU tag is almost decorative for these colleges who have a league of their own; it has serious students who do not participate in, or have time for, the chaos of student politics. There is a sense that the college exists slightly apart from the larger university. This separation makes it easier to imagine such colleges as a space unto itself, one that does not have to constantly engage with the messiness of the university around it and what makes its students different from, say, Miranda House.

Thus, there are hard lines drawn between the outside and the inside, even though the failure to provide full accommodation to students does result in a pseudo-extension of “campus space” into the neighbourhood areas. However, these spaces, be it the the back gate lanes, the PGs, the shops, or the roads, are still seen as distinct from the actual institution, even though they form such a significant part of everyday student life and become a reason that the student body has had to ceaselessly fight for years to even get basic safety measures

The metro route too evolves into an everyday part of students’ experience of the college, but its problems do not seem to fall within the same boundaries of institutional responsibility. So, clearly there is a divide in how students perceive their college experience as a continuous and complex network and the institutions that operate within fixed and formal boundaries.

Now, imagine within this feminist utopia, just a few metres outside the premises, a police encounter of an accused in a gang rape case of a minor, that too not more than 2.5 kilometres away. This incident exposed the cracks of the narrative. No longer can the institution detach itself from its surroundings. The subsequent response of suspending classes, shifting them online, postponing events, all in lieu of “safety” can be read as an attempt to restore this separation.

The institution’s most immediate response to violence becomes a withdrawal from the spaces in which women move. One must question why safety is so easily seen as restricting access? Why does the response to violence so often become a question of where women should go, whether they should travel, whether they should gather, whether they should remain on campus, whether they should come to campus at all?

It is important to clarify that this is not a story of an institution forcing women to stay indoors. Students themselves feel unsafe coming to college and choose online classes because given what has happened, staying away feels like the safer and more rational choice. That choice should not be dismissed. However, that choice equally speaks of the environment created by the power structures that make withdrawal appear to be the most rational form of safety when violence occurs. It also exposes a contradiction within the fantasy of the feminist institution. The space can appear empowering precisely because the dangers surrounding it are experienced as external to it.

In the seminal text Why Loiter?, Shilpa Phadke discusses how narratives of danger can have the effect of “making women anxious, compelling them to strategise and negotiate every square foot of public space they access, all the while constantly looking over their shoulders, stalked ceaselessly by the ghost of past crimes.” She argues that such accounts can reinforce women’s anxieties in public and normalise their lack of access to public space, while also sanctioning restrictions on women’s mobility by rationalising them in the name of safety and well-being.

If every instance of violence produces another reason for women to reduce their movement, withdraw from public space and wait for the danger to pass, then the space itself remains unchanged, and the burden of adaptation continues to fall on women. The response of withdrawal may restore a sense of immediate safety, but it risks restoring the very boundary that the incident has exposed as inadequate.

The question of feminist space, therefore, cannot therefore be reduced to a protected island within a patriarchal city.

Yashika Jain

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DUSU Victory Processions Under Delhi HC Scrutiny As DU Asked to Respond

By DU Beat September 24, 2026

The Delhi High Court seeks DU’s response over alleged DUSU victory processions, reiterating concerns over electoral violations and the use of money and muscle power.

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday, September 23, sought a response from Delhi University over allegations that candidates who won the 2026 Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) elections took out victory processions despite a court order prohibiting such celebrations.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia was hearing an application filed by advocate Prashant Manchanda, who alleged that victorious candidates violated the court’s directions following the declaration of DUSU election results on September 19. The bench issued notice to the University and observed that the matter would be treated seriously.

The court noted that all 140 candidates who contested the elections, including those who emerged victorious, had already been issued show-cause notices pursuant to its earlier directions. Manchanda was directed to compile all relevant evidence and include it in a dossier to be submitted before the court.

The proceedings follow the High Court’s September 18 directions, issued amid concerns over alleged violations of the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations, the DUSU Code of Conduct and other election-related norms. The court had specifically directed that candidates, students, supporters or any other persons should not organise victory processions after the results, either on Delhi’s roads or within university campuses and hostels.

During Wednesday’s hearing, the counsel representing one of the candidates submitted that post-election celebrations could be difficult to control and pointed out that even dhols had not been used this year. The court responded that drums were not the central concern. Instead, it highlighted what it described as the “show of muscle and money power” as the larger issue.

At the same time, the bench acknowledged one improvement in this year’s election process, noting that there had been no reported defacement of public property during the DUSU polls. The court, however, remarked that “much needs to be done.”

The High Court’s intervention comes amid continuing judicial scrutiny of DUSU elections. Earlier, the court had warned that violations of election rules could invite contempt proceedings and had considered the possibility of imposing electoral damages on candidates and student organisations. It had also directed Delhi Police and DU authorities to ensure compliance with its orders.

The matter is now set to proceed on the basis of the evidence compiled by the petitioner and the response submitted by Delhi University.

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Bishakha Gogoi

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Fire Broke out at Gautam Nagar PG; Resident Alleges Safety Lapses

By DU Beat September 24, 2026

A gas cylinder leak reportedly caused a fire on the fourth floor of Gupta Niwas PG in Gautam Nagar, while a resident alleged fire safety lapses and the removal of videos.

A fire reportedly broke out on the fourth floor of Gupta Niwas paying guest (PG) accommodation in Gautam Nagar, Delhi, on 23 September, following a suspected gas cylinder leak.

According to a resident who spoke to DU Beat on condition of anonymity, the incident occurred between 9 and 10 am. The cause of the fire has not been officially confirmed, and it remains unclear whether anyone was injured. Workers may have been hurt, though this could not be independently verified.

There were allegedly no fire extinguishers near the cooking area, while the building reportedly lacks fire alarms and a proper fire exit. The only rear gate is also allegedly kept closed. It is unclear whether the police were called.

Videos of the fire were recorded by residents of a nearby PG accommodation. The footage was allegedly later removed, with people reportedly being asked to delete it, while burn marks in the affected area had already been painted over.

The warden reportedly did not mention the fire when asked about the incident, while parents of residents were said to have called the PG in large numbers afterwards. The resident expressed concern that the cylinder could have exploded and that the fire could have been far worse in a six-storey building, calling for basic safety measures to be put in place.

Two electrical faults were also reportedly noticed in the days preceding the fire. Burnt wires were allegedly spotted in electrical boards at around 11:45 pm on 21st September and fixed by 2 am. A similar incident reportedly occurred the following day.

At the time of publication, no statement from the PG management, the Delhi Fire Service or the police had been made available.

Image Caption: Gupta Niwas PG in Gautam Nagar in flames of the fire reported on 23 September.

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Vidhi Ramchandani

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DU Women’s Colleges Call for Solidarity March to Reclaim the Streets; Hundreds of Women Take Part

By DU Beat September 23, 2026

The back gate area of Lady Shri Ram College For Women, DU, bustled with slogans of “Azaadi” on the evening of 23rd September, with hundreds of women joining the solidarity march that was organised to raise concerns about women’s safety following the alleged gang rape of a 17-year-old minor near Aastha Kunj earlier this week.

Around 4PM, on the evening of 23rd September, hundreds of women students from various DU colleges like LSR and Gargi gathered at National Park, near the back gate of Lady Shri Ram College For Women, DU, to lead a solidarity march, raising their voices about concerns of women’s safety in the national capital of the country, especially in and around Delhi University colleges.

Despite several media channels portraying this as a solidarity march organised and participated in only by LSR students, several students present at the march have denied such claims.

“To clarify, this is not an LSR issue; this is an all-women, all-DU issue,” says a student present at the march. “When a curfew is established, it only stops women from going out; it doesn’t hinder the men from committing heinous crimes, like rape,” she further states.

Female students and faculty members from across DU Colleges join the solidarity march

The march was joined in by hundreds of women from multiple DU colleges, making it successful in raising collective concerns about inadequate CCTV surveillance and patrolling in the area, as students state that security concerns had persisted long before the recent incident. Demanding the same, chants of “Azaadi” and “Inquilab Zindabaad” filled the premises of National Park and Moolchand.

Police cars, along with abundant police forces, covered the entire area, ensuring the march remained peaceful and didn’t turn into a public disruption. However, these same police forces were also seen to stop for deliberations and negotiations with the student body regarding which path the march should take or till where they should be allowed to move forward. Despite this, the march did not come to a halt for once.

Police manned with guns observed patrolling the solidarity march

This all-women’s march saw students raising slogans and carrying posters highlighting the need for better security infrastructure around the college and its adjoining areas, as yet another rape incident brought the longstanding demand for women’s safety into focus. The posters that were carried by the students highlighted slogans like, “Moral policing women will not stop rape” and “A woman’s body isn’t a battleground for your power.”

This march is an attempt to reclaim the spaces that are overpowered by men and patriarchal people who have normalised violence against women,”

says a faculty member from LSR who also actively took part in the march.

The march, upon reaching the Pink Booth, which was inaugurated earlier this year in hopes of securing safety for women travelling by the roads nearby leading to Moolchand Metro Station, was met with a long-lasting discussion going back and forth between a few people from the march and the police forces. The spirit of the march was intact, however, as most of the students were seen to sit down, continuing with their loud, energetic chants.

The Pink Booth, though established to make women feel safer, has received heavy scrutiny from students of nearby colleges, especially LSR, ever since its establishment. The concern of the booth being mostly empty has remained a recurring complaint.

The solidarity march however, wasn’t limited just to the students of the nearby colleges. Student organisations like SFI and AISA also joined the march, while parties like ABVP were spotted at the Amar Colony Police Station spreading pamphlets to the police in an attempt to spread awareness.

Line of students spotted demanding basic security and raising concern for women’s safety

This inciting incident comes within days of sexual violence in Bihar’s Jamui district, where two juveniles were hounded by a group of masked men who tried to abduct and molest the girl on camera. NCRB data shows increasing incidents of violence against women, with a crime reported every 71 seconds.

Less than a third of cases reported result in convictions. Despite claims of “Encounter Justice” by many Chief Ministers from the BJP, including Adityanath (UP), Hemanta (Assam), Samrat Chaudhary (Bihar) and Suvendhu Adhikari (WB)—the police being ordered to shoot perpetrators before proving their guilt in courts—the rising numbers show that this has not stopped crimes against women. In fact, the majority of reported crimes are by people known to the survivor. The current regime has also famously celebrated powerful men involved in sexual violence, from Brijbhushan Singh to rapists at Kathua – Unnao – Hathras and IIT BHU, even garlanding Bilkis Bano’s rapists.

The institutional shortcomings are starkly evident in the recurring campus violence and administrative failures in DU. The reinstatement of a professor found guilty of sexual harassment at Ramjas College in 2025, the routine normalization of sexual harassment during college fests at women’s colleges, systemic harassment allegations at Bharati College in 2018, and the aggressive hooliganism and harassment targeting women during DUSU elections reiterate how unsafe university spaces remain for women and gender minorities.

As one of the posters said, “It’s not my fault I crave the night air; it’s your fault you crave taking it away from me.”

This march is not new, nor are the crimes against women. Today, the students of a central university do not feel safe around their own campus; tomorrow, we will hear headlines talking about another case where women do not feel safe inside the four walls of their own house. The perpetual oppression and violence against women have been continuing for centuries, yet the system fails them time and again, compelling them to take to the streets and reclaim spaces that were never supposed to be bound by any ownership.

Chandrani

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HCSA on Dharna; Teachers and Students Confront Hindu College’s Administration

By DU Beat September 23, 2026

The Hindu College Staff Association and students have been holding a dharna since 14th September 2026, demanding accountability from the college administration over alleged procedural violations in supernumerary admissions and a broader pattern of governance concerns.

DU Beat warmly acknowledges Scribe, the Literary Society of Hindu College, whose detailed documentation of the ongoing issue has been an invaluable reference in the reporting of this piece.

Since 14 September 2026, the Hindu College Staff Association (HCSA) and students have been sitting on a dharna on campus. The protest was triggered by alleged procedural violations in the supernumerary quota admission process in August. The association had passed a unanimous vote of No Confidence against Principal Prof. Anju Shrivastava, and in response, the Governing Body issued show-cause notices to three faculty members, including the HCSA President, Secretary and a senior faculty member. The HCSA’s demands include the withdrawal of these notices, accountability for the admissions irregularities, and adherence to statutory governance norms by the administration.

In supernumerary admissions through ECA and sports, the Bulletin of Information states that no single undergraduate programme must have more than 20% of the total supernumerary seats. However, according to Scribe, the Literary Society of Hindu College’s Substack, two courses, B.A. (Honours) Political Science and B.Com (Honours), exceeded the 20% statutory cap for a single course. The society also claims that once the TICs identified the aberration, there were procedural delays from both the Principal and the DU Dean of Admissions in rectifying the issue. The issue was credited to an algorithmic error, which the students claim is mathematically unfeasible. This has also raised questions amongst students as to whether similar irregularities may have occurred previously without detection.

On the final day of the college verification round for admissions, 14 August 2026, the Principal called for an urgent Council Meeting with the Staff Council Secretary, Dr Chandrachur Singh. The Staff Council Secretary proposed convening the next day, adducing statutes demanding a 24-hour formal notice before a meeting. Since the portal closed at 5 pm that day, the list was finalised in breach of the 20% limit. At approximately 7 pm on 14th August, a Google Meet link was circulated on the HCSA WhatsApp group by a faculty member without administrative standing, with around 50 faculty members contacted via private calls. The HCSA Secretary and Convener of Academic Affairs were reportedly not included. The consensus arrived at through this meeting was allegedly used to clear the disputed admission list.

On 18th August 2026, the HCSA convened a general body meeting attended by 80 to 85 members, representing permanent faculty across departments. The meeting concluded with a unanimous vote of no confidence against Principal Prof. Anju Shrivastava. Copies were submitted to the Vice-Chancellor, the Dean of Colleges, and Governing Body Chairman Mr T.C.A. Rangachari.

Chairman Rangachari allegedly publicly stated that he does not recognise the HCSA, a body that has existed for over seventy years. Show-cause notices were subsequently issued to three faculty members, including HCSA President Dr Ratan Lal, Secretary Dr Shankar Kumar, and senior faculty member Dr P.K. Vijayan, for alleged code of conduct violations.

The dharna has witnessed widespread participation, but the students have expressed feeling intimidated by the administration, with non-teaching staff holding up cameras in meetings meant for a dialogue between the Principal and the students.

“The dharna is going pretty strong, with many students coming up every day to support the cause. However, there seems to be a division in interest towards the protest, with many departments boycotting it. There have been alleged calls from the Administration to the parents of the students who are participating in the protest. There have been alleged claims that the professors of some departments are telling students not to take part in it. Nevertheless, the protest has brought forward several important issues, especially the tyrannical behaviour of the administration and the havoc it creates in students’ lives, and it indeed needs to be paid attention to,” a second-year student at Hindu College told DU Beat.

The admissions controversy has brought to the surface a longer-running dispute over governance at Hindu College. Under DU’s Ordinance XVIII, Clause 6(3), the Principal is required to function as “Principal-in-Council” on matters that fall within the Staff Council’s domain; meaning executive decisions on such matters cannot be taken unilaterally. Clause 6(e) of the same ordinance further mandates that the Principal implement all decisions of the Staff Council. According to the HCSA, these provisions have been routinely disregarded. The Staff Council Secretary has, by the association’s account, written over 100 letters to the Principal requesting compliance with statutory requirements, including the convening of mandatory semester meetings and the maintenance of signed minutes on record. The association alleges that these communications have gone largely unacknowledged.

The midnight Google Meet of 14th August is cited by the HCSA as emblematic of this pattern: a meeting convened without statutory notice, bypassing the elected Secretary and Convener of Academic Affairs, and used to generate consent for a decision that the faculty body had not formally deliberated upon.

Students have voiced concerns about the campus environment alongside the faculty’s governance grievances. Annual fees and on-campus hostel charges, according to students, exceed what comparable private paying guest accommodations in the area cost.

Beyond fees, students allege a pattern of administrative overreach into routine aspects of campus life. Women’s washrooms are reportedly locked at 4:00 pm, despite classes running until 4:50 pm. Security personnel allegedly clear the lawns and library at the same hour, effectively restricting student access to common spaces before the academic day has ended.

More seriously, some faculty members have alleged that students have been deployed inside classrooms to covertly record lectures delivered by faculty members associated with the protest, including Dr Ratan Lal and Dr Shankar. The HCSA has described this as an attempt to surveil and intimidate dissenting voices within the institution.

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Rishika Jain

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JMI Introduces One-Year PG Courses, Expanding Options for DU’s Four-Year UG Students

By DU Beat September 23, 2026

JMI has approved 13 one-year PG courses through online and distance modes, adding another NEP-linked higher education route as Delhi University’s four-year UG batch enters postgraduate study.

Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) has approved one-year PG courses in 13 disciplines through Open and Distance Learning (ODL) and Online Learning (OL) modes weeks after Delhi University introduced its own one-year postgraduate programmes for students completing four-year undergraduate degrees.

The development is particularly relevant to Delhi’s current four-year undergraduate students, who are beginning to encounter new postgraduate pathways under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. However, JMI’s September 21 office order does not establish that DU students will automatically be eligible for these programmes. Eligibility and admission conditions are expected to be governed by the applicable JMI and University Grants Commission (UGC) regulations.

According to the official order, the programmes will be offered through JMI’s Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE). The 11 Master of Arts programmes cover Education, English, Geography, Hindi, History, Human Resource Management, Islamic Studies, Political Science, Public Administration, Sociology and Urdu. The university has also approved one-year programmes in Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Commerce (Business Management).

The approval was issued by JMI’s Vice-Chancellor under powers exercised on behalf of the university’s Academic Council. The decision is to be placed before the Academic Council at its next meeting for ratification. JMI’s CDOE has also listed the September 21 order on its official notices page.

The move comes as the first batch of students admitted to DU’s four-year undergraduate programme reaches the postgraduate stage. For the 2026-27 academic session, DU’s one-year PG programmes are specifically designed for students who have completed a four-year bachelor’s degree under its NEP-based framework. DU’s official eligibility document states that the programmes are restricted to students completing four-year degrees from the university, subject to programme-specific requirements.

Unlike DU’s one-year PG structure, which is tied directly to its four-year undergraduate system, JMI’s newly approved programmes will be delivered through distance and online modes. The university’s 2026-27 prospectus had already identified the rollout of one-year PG programmes as part of its second phase of NEP implementation.

The two developments point to the growing presence of one-year postgraduate programmes in Delhi’s higher education landscape, while offering different routes through which universities are implementing the postgraduate provisions associated with NEP 2020.

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Aarushi Chaubey
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DUTA Takes Demands to LG, Classes Suspended Across 12 DU Colleges

By DU Beat September 22, 2026

DUTA will hold a Justice March on September 23 over teaching vacancies and the regularisation of long-serving ad-hoc faculty across 12 Delhi government-funded DU colleges.

Classes across 12 Delhi University colleges are expected to be suspended after 10 am on Wednesday, September 23, as the Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) will hold a Justice March over the approval of teaching positions and the regularisation of long-serving temporary and ad-hoc faculty.

The march will begin at 10.30 am from Gate No. 1 of the University’s Vice-Chancellor’s Office and proceed towards the Lieutenant Governor’s House. DUTA plans to submit a petition to the Lieutenant Governor, taking its demands beyond the University campus and directly to the Delhi administration.

The association is demanding approval for teaching positions in the 12 Delhi government-funded colleges, along with the immediate initiation of the regularisation and absorption process for teachers who have served on temporary or ad hoc appointments for several years. According to DUTA, the vacancies and continued reliance on temporary appointments have remained a concern for the functioning of these colleges and their teaching staff. In May this year, DUTA raised similar concerns over delays in filling teaching and non-teaching positions across the 12 colleges.

The regularisation of ad hoc faculty has also previously been before the Delhi High Court. In July 2025, the Court ruled in favour of two ad-hoc Assistant Professors seeking regularisation, citing their prolonged service and the circumstances surrounding their appointments. The ruling forms part of the broader legal context around the employment status of teachers who have served for extended periods on temporary appointments.

With DUTA taking its demands to the LG House, Wednesday’s Justice March is set to bring renewed attention to the availability of teaching positions in the 12 colleges and the continued presence of temporary and ad-hoc faculty.

Ahana Dey

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