DUTA Letter to Staff Associations, 14.12.2018

President/Secretary/Office Bearers
Staff Associations
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14.12.2018

Dear Colleagues,

The DUTA along with DUCKU will rally together on 19 December 2018 from Mandi House to Sansad Marg for our just service and working conditions.

A very large number of teaching and non-teaching posts have remained vacant for over a decade. Thousands of teachers are working on ad-hoc basis for past several years. Situation with karamcharis is worse.

The process of recruitment of teachers in Delhi University, which started because of a High Court Judgement, has been brought to a standstill because of 5 March 2018 UGC Letter. Responding to the movement on the issue by the DUTA and other joint forums, the Government promised to settle the matter through an Ordinance. However, in a complete betrayal, the Government is maintaining silence on the matter. We are anguished that the matter has remained unresolved and recruitment across the country has come to a standstill. The DUTA has written to Leaders of Political Parties and Members, of Parliament seeking  support on the Roster issue and urged them to raise it in the Parliament. The DUTA will also hold shortly a Press Conference along with the Leaders of Political Parties to draw Government’s attention.

Further, the DUTA has repeatedly written to the MHRD for absorption/regularisation of ad-hoc and temporary teachers. The DUTA had requested the Delhi Government to push for the resolution of the Roster issue and absorption issue as an important stakeholder in Delhi University Colleges.

It is utterly shameful that the revised allowances under 7th Pay Revision have not been yet implemented. The revised pension has also not been implemented in DU. The Government and the slow DU administration are responsible for increasing the hardship of teachers. Moreover, the fate of many of our pensioners hangs in balance as the CPF-GPF issue remains unresolved. All pension cases must be resolved immediately to stop any further hardship to our retired colleagues.

The teaching and non-teaching community of the University are united in their demand of Old Pension Scheme for all. NPS should be scrapped and employees should be placed under GPF. The DUTA had flagged this issue to Leaders of Political Parties and will continue to build movement on the demand along with other teachers’ bodies.

The DUTA and the DUCKU are united against commercialisation of public funded Universities. We stand together against Tripartite MOU, HEFA and Scheme of Autonomous Colleges. We shall unitedly fight against tampering of the DU ACT and attack on service conditions.

Let us March together on 19 December from Mandi House to Sansad for just service conditions and in defence of public funded higher education. We shall assemble at Mandi House at 10 am. Please find the poster enclosed, please circulate it widely. Join in large numbers to make an impact.

Regards