Delhi University allocates over ₹67 crore for setting up WiFi network across its colleges
₹67.71 crore across all its college campuses and in an upcoming girls’ hostel in northwest Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar, according to a report by the PTI news agency. The WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) connectivity will be set up across about 90 colleges of Delhi University, on both north and south campuses.
The execution of the work will be funded from the loan corpus of ₹938.33 crore taken by the varsity from the Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA) in October last year to undertake various developmental projects. MP University releases admit card, date sheet but forgets to conduct exam! The HEFA has sanctioned a loan of ₹261.33 crore for setting up the WiFi network as well as to start the work for the construction of a building for the Faculty of Technology.
The HEFA is a joint venture company of Canara Bank and the Ministry of Education which provides financial assistance for the creation of educational infrastructure and research facilities in India's premier educational Institutions. The Delhi University had applied for a HEFA loan in 2022 to meet its infrastructural needs and expansion plans including setting up DU's east Delhi campus in Surajmal Vihar and opening a new college in Najafgarh, among other projects.
Separately, DU is likely to table a proposal to extend the validity for two of its MPhil courses in Clinical Psychology and Psychiatric Social Work till the academic session in 2025-26. CUET PG exam date 2024: Common University Entrance Test to begin on March 11 The proposal is likely to be placed before the varsity's Executive Council on 8 March.
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