The Aam Aadmi Party’s teachers’ wing Academic for Action and Development Delhi Teachers' Association (AADTA) held a protest inside the Executive Council (EC) meeting of Delhi University demanding the immediate formation of governing bodies in Delhi Government-funded DU colleges. The protest was led by AADTA’s Dr Seema Das and Rajpal Singh Pawar, who are EC members of the university. The protesters sat in the well of the EC meeting to press for the cause of absorption and to protest the non-formation of Governing Bodies in Delhi Government-funded Colleges.
Speaking about the protest, Dr Aditya Narayan Mishra, the National Incharge of AADTA, highlighted the plight of the professors and demanded that the DU administration stop arbitrarily displacing adhoc and temp teachers and denying absorption. He stressed that the absence of Governing Bodies has led to teachers being displaced by DU.
Dr Seema Das, an EC member from AADTA, expressed concern over the massive displacements of ad-hoc and temporary teachers due to the non-formation of Governing Bodies in 28 Delhi government-funded DU colleges.
She stated that DU has been reneging on its promise of no displacement and warned that this is leading to the harassment of thousands of adhoc and temporary teachers working in the colleges of the university.
