The story of our collegehood

University of Delhi 

Estab.||(i)/330/COVID-19/M/2020/32/                                                            Dated 16th february,2022

No! No! don't get panicked it's not a notification from DU, for further troubling you😓😓

 OK, "DU", do you know anything about this place?? Even do you know what it is ??

I won't agree if you say NO! this time, our DU, our Delhi university is about a hundred year old, and is known to almost all the people of country and in foreign land to, as it was established during British period in 1922! 

Thus it's a part of our history, isn't it ?

But, why DU today, this is what your minds are thinking right now. It is because DU is going to take a fresh breath again!!  for a student of DU, this fresh breath is like a new life, getting our campus back, which was hanging in the hands of DDMA 100% allowance order, the Vice Chancellor's order and in the hands of pandemic itself.

Era before pandemic, it was the liveliest campus in India one can think of, comprising 90+ colleges, 80+ departments, 70,000+ students at a time in its north and south campuses. From societies events, to concerts and fests organized by different colleges, the peer groups and their campus fun, professors' lectures and last moment assignment, the pressure of exams and then getting satisfied by whatever CGPAs we got in our exams. All these things were the part of every person who got enrolled in DU, enrolling in this prestigious institution, not merely for having fun but for getting an exposure to the world, to learn some new skills, and thus to live a youngster life at its fullest. 

Many people like us started planning for DU from our 11th class, or even much before it, after listening to our pass out seniors about the place. Little desires started developing in our tiny hearts, we will be going to that college, will be pursuing that course, will be doing so and so activities and our lives would become adventurous after entering into our college premises even some of us did a lot of hard work in our board exams just to get a good college of DU of our choice. 

"fate doesn't cares about your plans" the quote is simply describing inner part of ours.

We present here the first case of COVID-19 infection reported in Kerala, India. On January 27, 2020, a 20 yr old female presented to the Emergency Department in General Hospital, Thrissur, Kerala, with a one-day history of dry cough and sore throat.

And the tragedy began, pandemic started to take its shape, slowly everything began to be closed, exams got cancelled, gyms, restaurants, offices, schools, and 'colleges'.

As the death toll from COVID-19 rose to 12, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced a 21-day lockdown for the entire country, stating that it was the only way to break the chain of infection. The lockdown will be in effect till April 14. 

The lockdown was not limited till April 14 but for a long two years, though in between many things got opened, closed and got open again, even gyms, offices, restaurants and schools too but DU, once got closed in march 2020, never prepared itself to reopen again, the loose administration became accuse of this, and we the victim of all these circumstances. At many instances we saw some ray of hope, that this time we might get the notification of reopening, or at-least a specified date of the colleges to be reopened, but what we got in reality was far away from our those little desires, "All the non-teaching staff have to come back to college to resume offline work", "the university would reopen in phase manner", "students of third year are suppose to come to college for the lab activities and offline practical" etc...etc...etc. every time we hoped something good to happen, every time our hope got ruined.

we never imagined the worst thing like this, but pandemic taught us that life is full of uncertainty, that we should be ready for every hardship to face as it makes us stronger than ever before, that we should accept whatever comes to our way. thus we were moving on with these slogans, and suddenly press-conference was called by deputy CM of Delhi to announce reopening of educational institutions.

Again something like "forwarded many times" seen in our what's app inbox, every institution in delhi was reopening but not the DU, thus the climax of the story here ..........

Can you imagine what happened??

"Tired of DU shutdown, students protest at North Campus, boycott online classes on 7th  february  

"online classes boycotted in support of the protest."

"SFI holds protest for reopening DU, to start 'Sadak pe Kaksha' till the varsity reopens  on 8th February."

"DU student attempts to self immolate during protest over reopening"

and on 9th february, 

"'DU To Reopen on 17 Feb,' Announces Proctor After Protests by Students"

an official notification came in the evening regarding the same announcement, thus students' protest came to an end with this the resumption of online classes and on the other hand our people started to come back to offline campus. the outstation students are the main sufferers, as many of those weren't getting train or flight tickets on time, and some of them had financial and other similar problems. 

But at the end of the day, everybody tried the best that could be possible, we aren't sure how long we would be getting this life to live, but whatever we are getting, we should be thankful to god for it.

All the best to you buddies!!!

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