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Sunday, Aug 29, 2004

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NSUI, ABVP release manifestoes

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, AUG. 28. A season of promises in Delhi University, it was time for those leading the outgoing Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) to trumpet their achievements of last year and for their prime rivals, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), to shun the same and offer their own set of assurances for the coming year as they today released their manifestoes for the upcoming elections.

Although little has changed in the manifestoes of both parties, new issues like internal assessment and the implementation of Hindi medium at the postgraduate level are some of the new additions.

For its part, the NSUI seems to have decided to take credit for even those things that it was not really involved in.

On the list of the party's achievements are the ICR forms and the setting up of a railway reservation counter.

While the former was the result of the University administration's attempt to modernise admissions by using technology to switch over to the single window system, the second was thanks to the coming up of the University utility centre, again an initiative of the University administration.

And while it has listed the health fair conducted by DUSU as one of its achievements, it has also talked of managing to ensure a safe campus for women, something that not many girl students of the campus would probably agree.

The NSUI, however, promises that if elected for another year, it would ensure computerisation of libraries, free internet facility for students and special arrangement for libraries and introduction of new vocational courses and police patrolling on the campus in the night time.

The ABVP while accusing the NSUI-led DUSU of being inefficient and inactive, promises to keep students issues in the fore front if elected to power.

Apart from asking for the setting up of a university level committee to monitor, study and recommend various aspects of the fee structure, the ABVP has asked for examination reforms, internal assessment, admission reforms and improvement on transport and hostel facilities, Internal assessment continues to be a prominent topic this year with both the major parties taking it up as an important issues.

Another common demand is the appointment of a full time Dean of Students Welfare as well as the inclusion of students in the Committee Against Sexual Harassment.

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