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ABVP manifesto full of promises

Staff Reporter

From examination reforms to placement cells, fee hike withdrawal to blind hostel

NEW DELHI: With election fever finally gripping Delhi University, it is down to achievements, claims and promises.

And if Wednesday saw the National Students' Union of India (NSUI) talk about its achievements, it was time for the promises of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Thursday.

From examination reforms to placement cells and transparency in evaluation system to a hostel for the blind, the ABVP's list of promises was a long drawn one. While pointing out that these had been divided into long-term and short-term goals, ABVP State secretary, Nakul Bharadwaj, said withdrawal of fee hike was one of the big demands of the student outfit.

"We want examination reforms to be introduced with a rollback of the fee hike imposed by most colleges on the campus. Also on the list of demands is the withdrawal of the internal assessment as it has caused a lot of problems to students,'' he said.

With DUSU elections seldom witnessing a change in the manifestoes, back once again on the ABVP's list of promises is making it mandatory for all entrance examinations to have question papers in the Hindi medium as well as for teaching in colleges.

"One of our demands is transparency in the evaluation system. We have been demanding that copies of answer sheets be kept in the library so students know what kind of answers are excepted from them or how to approach a subject,'' added Bharadwaj.

Placement bureaus

Apart from this, the ABVP is also demanding placement bureaus across the campus to help students get employment faster and the making of South Campus more compact with the introduction of more facilities for students as well as an East and West Campus.

"We want better facilities for blind students. Some of them had come to meet us and narrated their problems ,'' he said.

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