Dyal Singh Evening College converted into morning college

New Delhi: After gaining approvals of the Academic Council and Execeutive Council of the University of Delhi, Dyal Singh Evening College has been converted into a morning college from this academic session. Until last session, while the morning college held classes from 8am to 5pm, the evening classes began at 2pm.

“The purpose of an evening college was to enable professionals to attend college and this has continued over the years but now students transition straight from school to college which made the concept of an evening college redundant,” said Bhawna Pandey, public information officer and assistant professor, Dyal Singh Evening College. She explained that converting into a morning college would help students devote more time to the activities happening in college as well as take better advantage of library facilities. So far, the infrastructure was shared between the two colleges while 14 classrooms were devoted for the classes that began at 2pm.

Concerns were raised over the conversion of the evening college leading to a bifurcation of existing resources with reports of students from the two colleges clashing over the same last week.

While the principal of the morning college declined to comment over the matter, representatives of the morning college claimed that the existing resources were not sufficient to handle the intake of two morning colleges. Apart from classrooms, shared resources such as canteen, washrooms and parking space would not be able to take the additional burden.

Responding to the concerns of the morning college respresentatives, Pandey said that an expansion of the college was underway with a ten-storey complex under construction. “This is a phased transition where only the first year students of the new morning college will report for classes in the morning while the second and third year students will continue to attend the 2pm classes,” she added. According to her, this arrangement would be followed in the beginning till additional infrastructures is in place.

While a new name for the morning college hasn’t been decided so far, confusion about the classes prevailed. Several first-year students of the newly converted college HT spoke to said they had been asked to report to college every morning to check whether classes would be held or not as a clear picture would emerge only by Friday.