\ &> SOCIAL SCIENTIST Ministry. This formula of college-university relationship Would result into a complete separation of the Delhi University's colleges from the University itself. The University would be 'defederalised'—that is, the 'federal5 character of the University would be destroyed. Delhi University is the only major Indian university where colleges are constituent colleges, as distinct from affiliated colleges in most of the other universities. The University exercises a relatively greater control on the colleges run by public and private trusts. The rules, regulation and other decisions of the University are in many cases binding on the colleges. The governing bodies, of course, enjoy a good deal of autonomy. Cases of bungling with students9 and teachers9 funds, alongwith other forms of violation of norms laid down by the University go unpunished. Nevertheless, viewed in totality, the University's control over the colleges is possibly the greatest in Delhi. This ensures better standards of resources and amenities, smaller classrooms, proportionately greater number of teachers, broad uniformity in the criterion for admission of students, etc. These are some of the essential conditions for maintaining better academic standards. This does not, however, mean that conditions are ideal in Delhi University. Separating the colleges from the university or 'defederalising9 the structure of the university by converting the colleges into affiliated colleges is, therefore, bound to reduce the university's control and bring the college-university relationship at par with other 'big' Indian universities. This, the DUTA said, would further downgrade the quality of education. Besides, college teachers in Delhi enjoy the status of university teachers, because of the colleges being constituent colleges. Decreased control of the university over the colleges will also mean increased power of the governing bodies in matters relating to selection, promotion, security of service conditions of teachers, etc. But apart from all this, the organisational structure proposed in Naik's paper would certainly further worsen the existing situation all over India. For example, autonomous colleges, the university departments and the advanced study Centres will become 'elite9 islands catering to the needs of the few, and a self-perpetuating process of stratification of educational institutions will start taking shape. The DUTA forwarded the opinion that the organisational structure of college-university education should be viewed in relation to both the general policy of education and the particular character of the Delhi University as relevant to the interests of higher education. It, therefore, opposed any attempt to 'defederalise' the university or to separate the colleges from the university. The Government assured the DUTA by the end of February that there was no such move. The fast expanding university has its own continuing serious administrative problems. With a total number of students around 65,000 and more than 50 colleges with about 20 depart-