PM Modi takes Metro to attend celebrations of Delhi University. Interacts with people
PM Modi takes Metro to attend
celebrations of Delhi University.
Interacts with people
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the Delhi Metro on Friday preferred to take the Metro to attend the centenary celebrations of Delhi University. He was invited as the chief guest at the closing ceremony of DU centenary celebrations, launched on May 1, 2022 on the occasion of the university’s foundation day.
Videos onboard the metro showed PM Modi sitting in the metro as a common passenger and interacting with people amid the metro ride from Lok Kalyan Marg Metro Station to Vishwa Vidyalaya Metro Station.
Later he tweeted “Happy to have youngsters as my co-passengers,” while sharing a few pictures of his interaction with students inside the metro coach.
In the midst of his address at the event, the PM shared his experience while travelling in the metro. He said “Like students here I travelled by metro today. Students have a lot to talk about. From discussing science topics to new series on OTT, they don’t leave any subjects”.
Amid the programme, Prime Minister laid the foundation stone of the Delhi University Computer Centre and the building of the Faculty of Technology and the academic block which will be built in the North Campus of the University.
Delhi University (DU) was founded in 1922 through an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognised as an Institute of Eminence by the University Grants Commission.
Among the guidelines issued by Delhi University colleges for the live telecast of the varsity’s centenary celebrations to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi – No black dresses, compulsory attendance, suspension of classes between 10 am to 12 pm.
Hansraj College, Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar College and Zakir Husain Delhi College have made it compulsory for students and faculty to attend the live telecast of the event.
Several other colleges of the varsity, however, maintained that they have only “requested” the students and faculty to attend the event and that there is no attendance for the same.
In its clarification, the Delhi University administration said that they have not made attendance compulsory, adding the live telecast is being arranged so that those who cannot make it to the event can watch the same. R
Meanwhile, as per Registrar Vikas Gupta, the varsity has not issued any order on the compulsory attendance.
News input KV Raman
