DUTA Dharna to Protest against the University’s failure to Resume Permanent Appointments and Implement the Government’s Reservation Policy in Teaching Posts
The Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) held a Dharna outside the Vice Chancellor’s office today in order to protest against the University authorities’ failure to start permanent appointments in the 4000 plus vacant teaching posts as well as its inability to implement the 2006 UGC Guidelines on Reservations in teaching posts. Despite assuring teachers that permanent appointments will be kick started before the start of the new academic session, not a single concrete step in this direction has been taken by the Administration. As a result, the victimization of teachers in ad hoc positions continues unabated. This is ominous for the University as the confidence of the teaching community is of paramount importance in the present context of change and uncertainty. This confidence is not available to more than half of the teachers employed in the various colleges and departments of the University.
The Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) held a Dharna outside the Vice Chancellor’s office today in order to protest against the University authorities’ failure to start permanent appointments in the 4000 plus vacant teaching posts as well as its inability to implement the 2006 UGC Guidelines on Reservations in teaching posts. Despite assuring teachers that permanent appointments will be kick started before the start of the new academic session, not a single concrete step in this direction has been taken by the Administration. As a result, the victimization of teachers in ad hoc positions continues unabated. This is ominous for the University as the confidence of the teaching community is of paramount importance in the present context of change and uncertainty. This confidence is not available to more than half of the teachers employed in the various colleges and departments of the University.
It is also a matter of extreme concern and indignation that the University, which has earlier prided itself on its ability to stand by the oppressed and downtrodden, has not even been able to implement the 2006 UGC Guidelines on Reservations in Teaching Posts. Till date, it has not been able to ensure that the currently valid Roster, as fixed and clarified by the DOPT, is complied with and applied uniformly in every constituent unit of the University. This situation puts a serious question-mark on the University’s claims of Social Justice. Many young scholars from the SC, ST and OBC categories, who have been given an opportunity through Reservations to work their way up by the sheer dint of hard-work and talent and now find themselves eligible for careers in the academic profession, legitimately feel that their rightful place in the University is being denied.
Leading activists of the DUTA addressed the teachers during the Dharna. The VC’s indifference towards the increasingly unstable situation of teaching-learning in the University and the extreme alienation of teachers was condemned and the teaching community was urged to give a fitting reply to Prof. Dinesh Singh who has single-handedly been responsible for tarnishing the University’s record of Justice and bringing about the anarchy and suffering that has come to characterize its workings as an institution.
Amar Deo Sharma S.D. Siddiqui
President, DUTA Secretary, DUTA
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