DUTA Stages Dharna demanding Continuation of Ad-Hoc Teachers and Due Payment of their Vacation Salaries
The Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) Executive members and elected teachers’ representatives in the AC and EC staged a Dharna today outside the Vice Chancellor’s office demanding that the University ensure continuation of all Ad-Hoc teachers in their respective colleges from the first day of the new session. The University will commence its new academic session from 24th July. Many colleges are displacing Ad-Hoc teachers from their jobs under the pretext of holding interviews. Despite repeated assurances by the Vice Chancellor that the service of Ad-Hoc teachers will be protected, the University has allowed colleges to conduct interviews even in cases where the workload has remained unaffected. Through these interviews many Ad-Hoc teachers are being arbitrarily discontinued from their service.
The DUTA is of the firm view that this victimization of Ad-Hoc teachers should stop immediately. The Vice Chancellor had also claimed earlier that Permanent Appointments will be made before the new session begins. Not a single fresh appointment in any permanent post has been done till date. More than 4000 Ad-Hoc teachers are in a desperate situation due to the uncertainty caused by the workload fluctuation in semester system and FYUP. The University has taken no concrete steps to assuage the fear and humiliation faced by the Ad-Hoc teachers. Their service conditions are discriminatory and they are not entitled to medical leave and benefits, study leave or even maternity leave. Further humiliation is being heaped on them by keeping the matter of their continuation and their vacation salaries under a cloud of uncertainty.
The DUTA leaders submitted a Memorandum of Demands at the VC’s office, after the Dharna.
From tomorrow the DUTA team will start visiting all colleges to ensure that existing Ad-Hoc teachers are allowed to continue in the new session and their vacation salaries are duly paid to them.
AMAR DEO SHARMA S. D. SIDDIQUI
President, DUTA Secretary, DUTA
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