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Dough for DU: Rs 35 cr govt aid for 12 colleges

The Delhi government’s higher education ministry has sanctioned an amount of Rs. 35 crores as first installment of Grant-in-Aid (GIA) under non-plan scheme to Delhi government’s fully funded colleges affiliated to University of Delhi for the financial year 2014-15.

Under the GIA, this amount is sanctioned through first installment to the 100 per cent Delhi government funded colleges which are Acharya Narendra Dev College, Deen Dayal Upadhaya College, Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, Bhaskracharya College of Applied Sciences, Keshav Mahavidyalaya, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women, Maharaja Agrasen College, Bhagini Nivedita College, Maharishi Valmiki College of Education, Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education & Sports Sciences and Aditi Mahavidyalaya.

The higher education principal secretary R K Verma said the colleges are thus liable to take responsibility to ensure the effective implementation of policies of government of India, and must fulfill the conditions under which the grant is sanctioned, including the furnishing of head wise monthly expenditure report to the Directorate of Higher Education (DHE).

Further, it includes the submission of duly signed ‘utilization certificate’ by the executive head, by the grantee institution within the last week of June, 2014. ‘The grantee institution is not authorized to do or undertake any activity which entails additional financial liability for the government without the approval of directorate and finance and planning department like creation of posts, grants of pay scales higher than those corresponding posts in the government of NCT of Delhi, undertaking of infrastructural projects estimated cost of which is above Rs 2 crore and provision/extension of pension to employees,’ Verma added.

Delhi government’s finance department has agreed to release the GIA with condition to submit the proposal for second installment accompanied by documents such as Audited Utilization Certificate for
the year 2013-2014, ELFA audit report for the year 2012-13, 2013-14, achievement-cum performance report up to March, 2013-14 (Non-Plan and Plan), item-wise and financial progress made during 2013-14 and item wise projected expenditure for the remaining period of current financial year.
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