DUTA also intimated the President about the impunity with which the DU VC has attempted to stonewall any possibility of dialogue with the democratic organs of the University, viz. the DUTA, DUCKU and DUSU. Even as DUTA has consistently raised the issues of four thousand teaching vacancies in the University, the constitutional need to immediately implement the UGC’s Reservation Policy of 2006, as well as start the process of long-due promotions at the earliest, the VC has responded with hostility, never meeting the DUTA, making slanderous remarks against it, threatening teachers against participating in the activities of their Association and recently, even resorting to the cheap and cowardly tactic of putting pressure on the Principals of SRCC and Ramjas College to deny the DUTA a space to conduct its annual general body meeting on September 22, 2012, a tactic which was finally withdrawn as the VC realized that the President had agreed to meet the DUTA today, i.e. September 21, 2012.
Conveying its anxiety and concern that if the VC is allowed to carry on functioning in the present manner, he will push the University towards a catastrophe, the DUTA sought the active intervention of the President. Hon’ble Shri Pranab Mukherjee took serious note of all the lapses that were pointed out and promised to use his office to ensure the answerability of the VC, and the restoration of administrative delivery and the University’s prestige to the satisfaction of the teachers. The DUTA delegation expressed its satisfaction at the patient hearing that the President gave to its members and his assurances that their concerns will be looked into and taken up expeditiously at the highest level.
S.D. Siddiqui, Secretary Amar Deo Sharma, President
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