Solidarity with DU

04/11/2019

17/10/2019

Delhi University students (From Miranda House and Kirori Mal College) on September 25, 2019 staged a protest against the construction of a 39-storey building in North Campus, saying structure will overlook six girls' hostels and will be an "invasion of their privacy".
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The building will overlook six girls' hostels which is "an invasion of their privacy." The private builder should have held discussions with the Delhi University administration, the teachers' association or the students' union before beginning construction.
The land originally belonged to the Ministry of Defence and was acquired for public purpose by the state government for the construction of metro station by DMRC.
Subsequently, the DMRC sold two-thirds of this land by granting perpetual lease to a private builder in the guise of property development and by changing the land use from "public and semi-public facility to residential, he alleged.
If the 39-storey building near the Delhi University Metro gets constructed, it will not only pose a threat to the privacy of the girl students living around the university, but will also increase the danger to the historical buildings around it.