{"id":351687,"date":"2025-01-03T00:45:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T06:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=351687"},"modified":"2025-01-03T01:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T06:52:22","slug":"modi-set-to-lay-foundation-of-veer-savarkar-college-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/modi-set-to-lay-foundation-of-veer-savarkar-college-in-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi set to lay foundation of Veer Savarkar College in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"622\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/01\/PM-Modi-1-1024x622.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-351690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/01\/PM-Modi-1-1024x622.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/01\/PM-Modi-1-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/01\/PM-Modi-1-768x466.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/01\/PM-Modi-1-696x423.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/01\/PM-Modi-1-1068x648.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/01\/PM-Modi-1-692x420.jpg 692w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/01\/PM-Modi-1.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday is set to lay the foundation stone of Veer Savarkar College in Delhi\u2019s Roshanpura in Najafgarh. This comes at a time when the assembly elections are due in the city next month, fuelling a controversy between Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the choice of name of the college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharing information about the foundation laying ceremony, Delhi University Vice Chancellor Yogesh Singh said that the Prime Minister will be laying the foundation of three projects including East and West campus of Delhi University and Veer Savarkar College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, \u201cIt is a moment of pride for the Delhi University as Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be laying the foundation of three projects which will be completed in Two years. We will be creating new opportunities and new seats with the help of this infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the projects have been budgeted for Rs 600 crore which is being provided by the central government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, national president of the National Students\u2019 Union of India (NSUI), Varun Choudhary has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging to honour the legacy of former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh by naming the educational institution after him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The letter highlighted Dr. Singh\u2019s transformative contributions to India\u2019s education sector, including the landmark Central Universities Act, 2009, the Right to Education Act, and the establishment of premier institutions like IITs, IIMs, and AIIMS across the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs the government prepares to inaugurate a Delhi University college named after VD Savarkar, NSUI strongly demands that the institution be named after Dr. Manmohan Singh Ji instead,\u201d the letter read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday is set to lay the foundation stone of Veer Savarkar College in Delhi\u2019s Roshanpura in Najafgarh. This comes at a time when the assembly elections are due in the city next month, fuelling a controversy between Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the choice of name of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":351690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[19028,17621,15520,18820,19027],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351691,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351687\/revisions\/351691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/351690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}