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  • DUTA holds Protest Demanding Regularisation of ad-hoc Teachers

    DUTA holds Protest Demanding Regularisation of ad-hoc Teachers

    The Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) took to the streets on Wednesday over its demand for immediate absorption of over 4,500 ad-hoc teachers in the varsity and its colleges.


    The march from Mandi House to Jantar Mantar that was stopped by police saw teachers raising slogans against the government policies of privatization, implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) and also drew attention to the plight of the ad-hoc teachers.

    “The DUTA submitted a memorandum to the Ministry of Education to demand a one-time regulation for the absorption of ad-hoc and temporary teachers in keeping with the reservation policy against all sanctioned vacancies,” DUTA president Rajib Ray said in a statement.

    It alleged that the recruitment in Delhi University had not happened for “over a decade”, except sporadically, resulting in young teachers being forced into situations of extreme vulnerability with no benefits like their permanent colleagues.

    The DUTA said while the government was going ahead with the implementation of the NEP at breakneck speed, teachers feared it would exacerbate the precarious situation of ad-hoc teachers.

    The teachers’ body cited various cases of regularisation of employees mandated by court orders to push for what they call is a “just demand” and subsequently end the ordeal of thousands of teachers at the receiving end of various policies that supposedly aimed to restructure higher education.

    The NEP, approved by the Union cabinet last year, replaces the National Policy on Education framed in 1986. The new policy is aimed at paving the way for transformational reforms in school and higher education systems to make India a global knowledge superpower.

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  • DUTA Protests Against Order to Appoint Senior Administrative Officers at 12 Delhi Govt-Funded Colleges

    DUTA Protests Against Order to Appoint Senior Administrative Officers at 12 Delhi Govt-Funded Colleges

    The Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) on Wednesday led a protest rally from the vice-chancellor’s office to the chief minister’s residence to raise a number of demands including removal of the ‘Pattern of Assistance’ document and revoking an order to appoint senior administrative officers at the 12 Delhi government-funded colleges of DU.

    As per a statement, DUTA alleged that the Delhi government had not released additional grants and posts promised by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to the principals of the 12 DU Colleges in a meeting on March 16.”This will again lead to financial crises in these colleges as they will not be paid salaries in February and there will also not be any settlement of long-pending dues. Delhi government needs to give any assurance that such delays will not take place in the future and Grants-in-Aid will be released quarterly

    The teachers’ union said.

    It alleged that the ‘Pattern of Assistance’ document released by the Directorate of Higher Education was a “prelude to a massive restructuring of these colleges that would inevitably lead to the dismemberment of these colleges from Delhi University”.”We remind you once again that such unilateral reworking of Pattern of Assistance without taking into consideration other stakeholders including Delhi University and employees of these colleges is both unethical and illegal. These 12 Delhi University colleges are constituent colleges and will always remain part of Delhi University,” it added.

    The colleges, which were earlier referred to as “100 percent funded Delhi government-maintained colleges of DU”, are now addressed in the document as “100 percent funded Delhi government-sponsored college affiliated to the University of Delhi“.”The change in the manner of referencing clearly strengthens the apprehension that the Delhi Govt. “earlier tasked with maintaining these educational institutions, is now redefining itself as the sponsor of Edu-business units” to find ways of disaffiliating them from Delhi University,” the DUTA said in an earlier statement.

    It also reiterated its demand for the removal of senior administrative officers who have been given additional charge of the 12 colleges.”DUTA wants an immediate rescindment of the Order of Finance Department, Human Resource Division, dated 17.02.2021 that assigns to Senior Administrative Officers additional charge of the 12 DU colleges. The introduction of such officers is not tenable under the framework of the University of Delhi. The Office of the Principal is competent enough to look into these matters. We strongly object to such excessive interference in the day-to-day working of these colleges,

    it said.

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  • DU Teachers Protest Over Non-Payment of Salaries; Grant by AAP govt Sporadic in the Past Year, Says DUTA

    DU Teachers Protest Over Non-Payment of Salaries; Grant by AAP govt Sporadic in the Past Year, Says DUTA

    Twelve Delhi University Colleges under Delhi government have not been allocated sufficient funds since November to pay the teaching staff prompting the teachers to hold a protest march from the DU Vice Chancellor’s Office to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence on Monday, January 15. The principals of these colleges are scheduled to meet the CM on Tuesday.

    According to the staff in various colleges, the Delhi government is yet to release Rs 6.25 crore to DDU College in Dwarka, Rs 6.2 crore to ANDC College in Govindpuri, Rs 4.16 crore Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Science in Dwarka, Rs 3.25 crore to Maharaja Agrasen College in Vasundhara Enclave, Rs 1.85 to Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women in Vasundhara Enclave, Rs 1.5 crore to BNC College in Najafgarh, and Rs 32.5 lakh to Shaheed Sukhdev College.

    The rest of the colleges are Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, Aditi Mahavidyalaya, Keshav Mahavidyalaya, Maharishi Valmiki College of Education, and Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science. All of these colleges are fully funded by the Delhi government.

    In a memorandum submitted to the Chief Minister, the Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) highlighted that this was the first time that the grants for salaries and pensions were stopped by the government. “For the past one year, the sanction of grants to the 12 colleges has been sporadic and inadequate. The inordinate and unexplained repeated delays in release of the grants is crippling institutions,” stated the letter. DUTA had sent a similar letter to the DU Vice-Chancellor on Sunday.

    DUTA had called for a complete shutdown of colleges from March 11 as the college staff of these colleges has not been paid for more than six months. DDU College teachers said they have not received their salaries after October. After the call for an indefinite shutdown, Delhi Government had on Friday, released Rs 82.79 crore under salary head and Rs 9.6 crore under other than salaries section.

    DUTA President Rajib Ray underscored that these colleges were being forced to adopt a document called the ‘Pattern of Assistance’ issued by the Delhi Government’s Directorate of Higher Education. “The provisions of the ‘Pattern of Assistance’ aims to redefine the association of these 12 colleges with Delhi University and coerce them to gradually becoming self-sufficient and self-sustaining,” said Ray. This means, Ray explained, that the Delhi government will sidestep its funding responsibility to these colleges and these institutions will have to increase fees to pay salaries. This would make college education unaffordable to most. Sources who did not want to be identified said all the principals got calls on this issue from the deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia’s office.

    Giving in to pressure from the government, the governing body of two colleges – Maharshi Valmiki College of Education in Geeta Colony and Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education and the Sports Sciences in Vikaspuri – passed a resolution stating that they would follow the pattern of assistance as suggested by the Delhi government and not that of the UGC.

    However, DUTA office-bearers said the Delhi government cannot change the pattern of the assistance of these fully funded 12 state colleges as they were set up in accordance with the UGC norms, based on the Delhi University Act, 1922. They are governed by rules and regulations of DU, which have been formulated within the framework of UGC rules. The government has been providing funds in accordance with UGC norms. College governing bodies cannot change the funding pattern as it is the executive council under DU that has the authority to make these decisions.

    In the letter, DUTA pointed that, “The pattern of assistance document refers to these colleges as 100% Delhi government-funded and sponsored college affiliated to the Delhi University. These colleges have always been referred to as 100% funded Delhi government maintained colleges of DU. These are constituent colleges of DU. The change in the manner of referencing strengthens the apprehension that the Delhi government, earlier tasked with maintaining these institutions, is now redefining itself as the sponsor of Edu-business units to find ways of disaffiliating them from DU.”

    The funding criteria, states the memorandum, in the documents mimic the policy states in NEP that there would be transparent pre-announced criteria for adequate funding equitably distributed among public HEIs on the basis of their plans and further funding will depend on their plans and progress.

    “This is an attempt to move away from full funding to gradually reducing state funding. During the pandemic, we saw how many teachers of private institutions were not paid salaries. That is what will happen here too,” explained Abha Dev Habib, assistant professor at Miranda House.

    These 12 colleges – have been at loggerheads with the Delhi government over funds for a few months. The Delhi government claimed that these colleges had surplus funds and wanted the college to use these funds for salaries. The case had reached the Delhi High Court where it was observed that all the ‘surplus funds’ being claimed by the Delhi government were student funds.

    In October 2020, the Delhi government directed these 12 colleges to exhaust the Students Society Fund (SSF) maintained by the respective colleges for the students. Delhi University Students Union filed a petition in High Court challenging this order. The Students Society Fund (SSF), which is entirely made up of the student fees, is meant for funding student societies at colleges, and the unspent amount is to be utilized only for student welfare.

    The Delhi High Court stayed the Delhi government order asking these colleges to pay outstanding salaries to the staff from the Students Society Fund. The court said the state should have paid the salary to the college staff, instead of asking colleges to use the student funds.

    “We will not allow student fees to fund our salaries. This can not be done. Once we move to pay staff salaries from student fees, then the fees will increase exponentially as they have in private universities in the country. Poor students will be the ones who suffer. The colleges should reduce the fees if there is a surplus amount,”

    Explained Dev Habib.

    The Delhi government spokesperson refused to comment on the issue and stated that they would not release a statement on the matter too.

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  • DUTA Continues DU Shutdown, Alleges govt Planning to Disaffiliate 12 Colleges

    DUTA Continues DU Shutdown, Alleges govt Planning to Disaffiliate 12 Colleges

    The colleges, which were earlier referred to as “100% funded Delhi Govt. maintained colleges of DU“, are now addressed in the document as “100 % funded Delhi Govt. sponsored college affiliated to the University of Delhi”.


    The Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) Saturday decided to continue its “university shutdown”, alleging that the funds released by the Delhi government for 12 DU colleges were insufficient.

    The (DUTA) Extended Executive also alleged that the 12 Delhi government-funded colleges of Delhi University are being forced to adopt a new document titled “Pattern of Assistance” in their governing bodies, through which the government is trying to find ways to “disaffiliate them from the Delhi University”.

    The executive body headed by Rajib Ray said in a meeting that they will continue the DU shutdown as the grants of ₹82.79 crores under salary head and ₹9.50 crore under other salaries head released on Friday will only meet requirements for payment of salaries up to January.

    “The provisions of this ‘Pattern of Assistance’ are designed to redefine association of these 12 colleges with Delhi University and divest Delhi government of its funding responsibility by coercing them to gradually become self-sufficient and self-sustaining

    Ray said in a statement.

    The colleges, which were earlier referred to as “100% funded Delhi Govt. maintained colleges of DU”, are now addressed in the document as “100 % funded Delhi Govt. sponsored college affiliated to the University of Delhi”.

    The change in the manner of referencing clearly strengthens the apprehension that the Delhi Govt. – earlier tasked with maintaining these educational institutions, is now redefining itself as the sponsor of Edu-business units – to find ways of disaffiliating them from Delhi University,

    Ray, the president of DUTA, said.

    He added that the change in the nomenclature should be seen in the light of the plea of the Delhi government to the Centre to amend the DU Act in consonance with the National Education Policy 2020.

    As per the documents, funds will be “equitably distributed among public HEIs on the basis of their plans and that further funding will depend on their plans and progress”.

    “Clause 4(x) (of the document) links grants to ‘annual achievement-cum-performance report‘,” Ray said.

    He added that clauses 3(ii), 3 (iii), and 17 should be read together as “a move away from full funding to a gradually reducing adequate funding”.

    (Clause 3-ii). The provisioning of the budget for grants needs to be made on a net deficit basis (i.e., total revenue from all sources – total expenses). 3(iii). The College shall evolve suitable mechanisms to maximize the generation of internal resources so as to attain self-sufficiency / self-sustainability over a period of time. 17. The Grantee College shall create alternative sources of income in the medium and long term. Release of grants to it shall be linked to the generation of income from other sources like consultancy etc,” the statement read. To further “arm-twist colleges” into generating revenue, the document seeks to put in place procedures that will make it difficult for colleges to actually spend the money received by way of grants,

    It added.

    The DUTA demanded the Delhi government to withdraw the new guidelines to “maintain the public character of the 12 institutions which have evolved to become reputed institutions under Delhi University providing quality education”.

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