Delhi CM Rekha Gupta inaugurates Rs 27 crore academic block at DU Social Centre School

The University of Delhi has established a new academic block at the DU Social Centre School campus in Maurice Nagar. Rekha Gupta, chief minister of Delhi inaugurated the new building at the convention hall of ViceRegal Lodge.

Ashish Sood, education minister of Delhi was also present along with Yogesh Singh, vice chancellor of the University of Delhi, few BJP MLAs, and DU officials.

Singh stated that the fore-storey school building was constructed at a cost of over Rs 27 crore. The construction of the building was completed in 'just' 21 months, he added.

Throwing some light upon the importance of collaboration between universities and schools, Delhi CM said: “We can together with DU create such a system that the government prepares the structure, and the university should participate in creating the academic structure within it. Especially, today, we should connect the children in government schools and the students of the university.”

“Every college should be connected to two or three schools. And the college students should go there on a weekly or fortnightly basis and motivate those children by going to that school and spend time with them and install new hopes in them,” she added.

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Smart classrooms to AI enabled labs in every government school in Delhi, says Ashish Sood

According to the press release, the new school building has a basement with 21 rooms. The single block building contains four floors including the ground floor. A total of 21 rooms including classrooms and laboratories have been established in the building, it added.

Explaining the new Delhi School Education Bill, Ashish Sood expressed: “We have brought the Delhi School Education (Transparency in Fixation and Regulation of Fees) Bill yesterday, in which for the first time in Delhi, if the fees of children increase, then parents have been included in the committee that decides it, who are equal stakeholders in education.”

“For the 18 lakh children who study in government schools of Delhi, we will work to provide smart classrooms to AI enabled labs etc. in every government school under the leadership of Chief Minister Rekha Gupta ji. Because we want to bring Narendra Modi ji's belief in equality of opportunities to the ground. He said that nothing happens by changing one school, we will bring change in every school,” Sood added.

Ajay Mahawar, MLA, Ghonda; Surya Prakash Khatri, MLA, Timarpur; Rajni Abbi, campus director of the DU South Delhi, and Vikas Gupta, DU registrar also took part in the ceremony.