Madam President,
On 15 July 2026 the Rampur Development Authority ordered 38 of the 40 buildings at Mohammad Ali Jauhar University to be demolished, on the ground that their maps were never approved. The university has stood for twenty years and three thousand students study there today.
How many universities in this country have approved maps? How many DM offices do? And does the office that signed this order have one?
Publish that list, or send the bulldozer there too. If the bulldozer only ever comes here, then this was never about maps.
For twenty years the file sat quiet, and the complaint arrived in the month the founder sat in jail. The government has scores to settle with Azam Khan; it has courts for that. It is using three thousand students instead.
Punish the trust, prosecute it, fine it — the courts are open. But do not punish the family that sent a daughter to college for the first time in its history, and watched her take up nursing. She filed no map, and no bulldozer can give her back a lost year.
Settle your scores elsewhere.
Spare the education.
माननीया महोदया,
15 जुलाई 2026 को रामपुर विकास प्राधिकरण ने मोहम्मद अली जौहर विश्वविद्यालय के 40 में से 38 भवन गिराने का आदेश दे दिया, यह कहते हुए कि इनके नक्शे कभी पास ही नहीं हुए थे। यह विश्वविद्यालय बीस साल से खड़ा है और आज इसमें तीन हज़ार बच्चे पढ़ते हैं।
इस देश की कितनी यूनिवर्सिटी के नक्शे पास हैं? कितने ज़िलाधिकारी कार्यालयों के पास हैं? और जिस दफ़्तर से यह आदेश निकला है, उसका नक्शा पास है क्या?
वह सूची जारी कर दीजिए, या फिर बुलडोज़र वहाँ भी भेज दीजिए। और अगर बुलडोज़र सिर्फ़ यहीं आना है, तो यह मामला नक्शे का था ही नहीं।
बीस साल तक फ़ाइल चुप पड़ी रही, और शिकायत ठीक उसी महीने आई जिस महीने संस्थापक जेल में हैं। सरकार को आज़म ख़ान से हिसाब चुकाना है — उसके लिए अदालतें हैं। हिसाब तीन हज़ार बच्चों से चुकाया जा रहा है।
ट्रस्ट से पूछिए, मुक़दमा चलाइए, जुर्माना लगाइए — अदालत का दरवाज़ा खुला है। लेकिन उस घर को सज़ा मत दीजिए जिसने अपने इतिहास में पहली बार एक बेटी को कॉलेज भेजा और उसे नर्स बनते देखा। उसने कोई नक्शा दाखिल नहीं किया था, और कोई बुलडोज़र उसका बर्बाद हुआ साल लौटा नहीं सकता।
हिसाब कहीं और चुकाइए।
शिक्षा को बख़्श दीजिए।
محترمہ،
15 جولائی 2026 کو رامپور ڈیولپمنٹ اتھارٹی نے محمد علی جوہر یونیورسٹی کی چالیس میں سے اڑتیس عمارتیں گرانے کا حکم دے دیا، یہ کہتے ہوئے کہ ان کے نقشے کبھی منظور ہی نہیں ہوئے تھے۔ یہ یونیورسٹی بیس برس سے قائم ہے اور آج اس میں تین ہزار طلبہ زیرِ تعلیم ہیں۔
اس ملک کی کتنی یونیورسٹیوں کے نقشے منظور شدہ ہیں؟ کتنے ضلع مجسٹریٹ کے دفاتر کے ہیں؟ اور جس دفتر سے یہ حکم جاری ہوا ہے، اُس کا نقشہ منظور شدہ ہے؟
وہ فہرست شائع کر دیجیے، ورنہ بلڈوزر وہاں بھی بھیج دیجیے۔ اور اگر بلڈوزر صرف یہیں آنا ہے، تو یہ معاملہ نقشے کا تھا ہی نہیں۔
بیس برس فائل خاموش پڑی رہی، اور شکایت ٹھیک اُسی مہینے آئی جس مہینے بانی جیل میں ہیں۔ حکومت کو اعظم خان سے حساب چکانا ہے — اُس کے لیے عدالتیں موجود ہیں۔ حساب تین ہزار بچوں سے چکایا جا رہا ہے۔
ٹرسٹ سے پوچھیے، مقدمہ چلائیے، جرمانہ عائد کیجیے — عدالت کا دروازہ کھلا ہے۔ لیکن اُس گھر کو سزا مت دیجیے جس نے اپنی پوری تاریخ میں پہلی بار ایک بیٹی کو کالج بھیجا اور اُسے نرس بنتے دیکھا۔ اُس نے کوئی نقشہ داخل نہیں کیا تھا، اور کوئی بلڈوزر اُس کا برباد ہوا سال واپس نہیں لا سکتا۔
حساب کہیں اور چکائیے۔
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| 2006 | University established by an Act of the Uttar Pradesh Legislature |
| 2006–2024 | Campus built — the area was under the Zila Panchayat at the time |
| 27 Sep 2024 | The area comes under Rampur Development Authority jurisdiction for the first time |
| 28 Jun 2026 | Twenty years on — notice issued after a complaint |
| 8 Jul 2026 | The trust files its reply |
| 15 Jul 2026 | Order to demolish 38 buildings under Section 27(1) |
| 17 Jul 2026 | The authority files a caveat — before the university has gone to court |
A caveat is an application one party files so the other side cannot obtain relief without the first party being heard.
On 17 July 2026 the Rampur Development Authority filed a caveat in the Allahabad High Court — before the university had gone to court at all.
An authority confident in its own order does not prepare to block a hearing before one has been asked for.
The authority itself accepts that two buildings were approved by the Zila Panchayat.
That is an admission that the Zila Panchayat was the sanctioning body at the time. The Rampur Development Authority arrived in this area on 27 September 2024.
How does an authority that arrived in 2024 measure a building from 2008 against its own rules?
Officials say the violation cannot be regularised, so demolition is the only remedy available.
In In Re: Directions in the Matter of Demolition of Structures (2024 INSC 866, 13 November 2024) the Supreme Court held that even where a structure violates regulations, demolishing the whole of it is often disproportionate; that many constructions can be regularised through compounding; that the state must adopt the least restrictive method; and that full demolition should be a last resort, not the default.
This government finds a way when it wants one. Here it does not want one.
The administration has directed the Regional Higher Education Officer and the District Inspector of Schools to set up counselling camps for students on the campus.
The people planning the demolition are also planning for the students it will displace. So who is being asked to believe education will not be affected?
38 of 40 buildings — which is to say, the university itself.
More than three thousand students, mid-session. A medical college, nursing, law, pharmacy, agriculture, engineering. Roughly 300 acres, built over twenty years.
Recognised by the UGC, AICTE, the Pharmacy Council, the Bar Council and AIU. Minority status granted by the NCMEI.
An institution built to bring affordable education to students from backward and minority communities.