DUTA General Body withdraws Strike at this juncture, pledges to intensify movement on pending issues through other means
The overdue cabinet decision to bring in a law through an Ordinance to restore the college/ department wise 200 point roster is a victory for the principled struggle of the DUTA, the principled struggles carried on by various groups for social justice and inclusive education and the coming together of all of us notwithstanding differences of opinion in joint actions.
The timely opposition and protests by the DUTA and many other organisations following the 5th March 2018 notification which forced the Government to admit that the department/ subject wise roster was unjust and to take belated legal action. For almost a year, however, it refused to act on its promise to bring an Ordinance. The campaign and protests which engaged the students, research scholars and those concerned about education and social justice created public opinion that was difficult for the Government to ignore.
In the light of this important victory for the teachers’ movement, the DUTA General Body withdraws the Strike.
The DUTA will continue to pursue its demands through intense struggle and campaign against anti-education policies and assault on teachers by the Government and the DU VC. The General Body decided to unitedly fight for absorption of teachers working in temporary/ ad hoc capacity under exploitative and insecure conditions, for dropping of the clause on contractualisation, for a promotion scheme that makes teaching profession attractive for talent, for release of pension for option category, for withdrawal of the SLP against pension affecting the livelihood of teachers, for counting of past services towards promotion, for stopping recoveries of huge sums from teachers by declaring the benefits they had got through the due process, for implementing stepping-up and removal of retrograde recommendations of UGC regulations, and for the removal of this Prof. Yogesh Tyagi from the post of Vice-Chancellor of Delhi University.
Further, the DUTA General Body appealed to all associations to draw up plans for compensation of the teaching loss.
The timely opposition and protests by the DUTA and many other organisations following the 5th March 2018 notification which forced the Government to admit that the department/ subject wise roster was unjust and to take belated legal action. For almost a year, however, it refused to act on its promise to bring an Ordinance. The campaign and protests which engaged the students, research scholars and those concerned about education and social justice created public opinion that was difficult for the Government to ignore.
In the light of this important victory for the teachers’ movement, the DUTA General Body withdraws the Strike.
The DUTA will continue to pursue its demands through intense struggle and campaign against anti-education policies and assault on teachers by the Government and the DU VC. The General Body decided to unitedly fight for absorption of teachers working in temporary/ ad hoc capacity under exploitative and insecure conditions, for dropping of the clause on contractualisation, for a promotion scheme that makes teaching profession attractive for talent, for release of pension for option category, for withdrawal of the SLP against pension affecting the livelihood of teachers, for counting of past services towards promotion, for stopping recoveries of huge sums from teachers by declaring the benefits they had got through the due process, for implementing stepping-up and removal of retrograde recommendations of UGC regulations, and for the removal of this Prof. Yogesh Tyagi from the post of Vice-Chancellor of Delhi University.
Further, the DUTA General Body appealed to all associations to draw up plans for compensation of the teaching loss.
| Rajib Ray President, DUTA Vivek Chaudhary Secretary, DUTA |
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