Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lieutenant Governor V.K. Saxena inaugurated the east Delhi campus of the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) on Thursday. The inauguration of the university campus was the center of a dispute between Lieutenant Governor and AAP-led Delhi government, both claiming to inaugurate the facility. The AAP announced that the east Delhi campus of GGSIPU would be inaugurated by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on June 8. However, the L-G’s office said that the inauguration would be done by L-G Saxena. Despite the dispute, the inauguration ceremony went smoothly.
Delhi Minister Atishi said, The Kejriwal government has been working on all the three sectors diligently over the last eight years. Today if you go on the streets of Delhi and ask any citizen about who brought the education revolution in Delhi, they will say Arvind Kejriwal, they will not say the BJP-appointed LG worked on education. She added that the east campus of GGSIPU was the brainchild of Manish Sisodia and well before the present L-G was sent to Delhi, Sisodia was involved in every aspect of the project.
The east campus of GGSIPU occupies an area of 18.75 acres, providing world-class higher education to students in Delhi. It is part of the three state university campuses the Kejriwal government is developing in the Jamnapaar/Trans Yamuna region, along with the NSUT East Campus and DTU East Campus.
