new delhi a group of people in old delhi have joined hands to collect money for one hundred students from marginal sections that are planning for higher education the group has already collected money for over 10 students to pay delhi university admission feesabu sufyan who came up with the idea told toi that the impact of covid19 was felt by numerous lowincome households in delhi who have faced losses in their smallscale business loss of daily livelihood and salary cuts due to the pandemicat the same time a number of highly meritorious students who have recently cleared their intermediate and graduation exams are finding it difficult to pay their university fees due to budget constraints at home a lot of them would be required to take a drop year and waste an entire academic year if they are unable due to their inability to afford public education the old delhi entrepreneur saidhe stated how he was helping out a few students getting admissions in delhi university when he got requests from many of them who wanted his help with paying off their fees the old delhi resident then utilised help from a social group of old delhi residents to initiate a fund collection drivethese students are from economically underprivileged students of delhi with excellent potential but lack money so i decided to launch this online campaign on milaap from where we could use the collected money to pay the first year fees of these students who have acquired confirmed seats in public universities of delhi such as delhi university jamia millia islamia jawaharlal nehru university etc these universities have already starred admissions so we needed to start early said sufyanso far they have collected over 2 lakh rupees and have also got a large number of anonymous donors who are willing to sponsor education of at least five such students getting admission in the universities of delhi