Top colleges of Delhi University are planning on to attain autonomous university status. This means the college would function as a deemed university and there would be no rules and regulations governed by the University of Delhi. The colleges that include in this are Shri Ram College of Commerce, The Hindu College, Ramjas College, St. Stephens College and the colleges under the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee.
The above-mentioned college expressed their desire to be declared as the deemed university in the recent governing body meeting held at Hindu College. If the process is achieved, these colleges will have the supreme right over the course structure, a number of admissions, fee structure and other important factors. They will be governing themselves as an independent college.
These colleges also will have to abide by the certain laws that are laid down by the union Human Resource Development ministry.
The colleges need to have 'A' accreditation for continuous of three years to be considered for the autonomous status by the ministry. It was first started by St. Stephens and partly St. Stephens do have some autonomous rights. They carry out their own entrance tests, have their own fee structure and have their separate entrance procedures.
This move, as speculated, would not be welcomed by the students union of any of the colleges as it gives supreme power to the college administration to make decisions on their own. Right now, the power is more decentralized and students, college professors, administration and University each are the pillars of this decentralized system.
Although, the journey of attaining the status seems to be the long way down the road, but if the process gets started, it would be difficult for Delhi University to hold the status quo it achieved over the years.
