DUSU (Delhi University Students’ Union) president Manoj Choudhary has been accused for misbehaving with University’s Vice Chancellor Deepak Pental on Wednesday. Choudhary was detained by police at Maurice Nagar police.

Manoj Choudhary had an appointment with VC Pental, where he went with his 15 supporters at around 1 pm. Except Choudhary none of the other students were allowed to enter in the VC’s office.

Manoj, who went to discuss the issue of students of correspondence getting migrated to regular colleges, had heated argument with VC Pental. During the argument Manoj picked up stationary and files from Dr Pantel’s table and starting throwing them at the VC.

Watching Choudhry’s unruly behavior with VC Pental, security guards caught hold and handed him over to the police.

Delhi University has raised the voice in protest against sexual harassment in the campus. Students want the authorities should take the initiative about the campaign.

Last Friday North Campus witnessed a protest rally by the students in front of vice-chancellors office. Devangana Kalita the final year student from Miranda College said, “We want to make our campus a zero-tolerance zone as far as sexual harassment is concerned. We are not only targeting students and teachers but also the non-teaching staff and even the bantawala on the campus to stop any incident of sexual harassment.”

On Friday, almost 300 students rallied from the Arts faculty with slogans, banners and posters to the office of vice chancellor. The rally was formed by participation of 10 colleges.

A step was taken early this year but the result wasn’t so fruitful. This time students were quite adamant to make their aim successful. Devangana said, “We had prepared a questionnaire and gave it to random students during January to March earlier this year. We found that there was hardly any awareness about sexual harassment. She added, “That’s when we thought of taking our efforts further and sent an open invitation to students to join us.”

The protesting students have started meeting every Tuesday to discuss about how to raise awareness about ordnance XVD. They have also carried several “freedom marches” in the campus last week.

The Delhi School of Economics, the famous college of the Delhi University has been identified as the worst offender in a list of “smoking dens” in Delhi University.


The list has been prepared by the World Lung Foundation-South Asia, which looks after the Delhi University Smoke Free Initiative. The World Lung Foundation-South Asia has prepared a list of 14 “smoking dens” in DU and DSE appears at the top spot in this list.

Delhi University is planning to make 83 of its affiliated colleges “Smoke Free”. The Delhi University has already implemented this successfully in its north campus earlier.

Famous colleges like Kirori Mal, Ramjas and Hindu will now be covered under the new initiative. This decision has been taken after consulting with all the colleges.

This is a welcome step from the DU as I strongly feel that smoking in School or colleges should be completely restricted. But it’ll be interesting to see the effect of this “Smoke Free” initiative as I know there will be plenty of guys who might not be happy with this decision.

Delhi University is all geared up to prevent ragging. But this time, it is not only the students who have to beware of the ragging syndrome but also their parents. DU has asked the colleges to ask all the students and their parents to submit an affidavit to prevent ragging. All the freshers as well as seniors and their parents will have to get the affidavit duly signed by an oath commissioner and submit it in the respective colleges.

All the DU colleges will be providing a proforma each for the affidavit to be submitted by the parents and the students. Most of the colleges are planning to give out its copies to the freshers on the orientation day and to the seniors when the classes begin.

This step has been taken in accordance with the UGC guidelines. This is also an effort to make students and their parents understand the UGC guidelines on ragging. This is not the first time that colleges have warned the students against ragging, most of the colleges have warned the students against ragging in their prospectus and through notices for the past several years.

This is thought to be a very positive step against ragging and DU seems to be going an extra mile to ensure a smooth beginning for the freshers.