Delhi University (DU) has constituted a 'Monitoring Committee' following the recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee for the "Welfare of the Schedule Tribes and Schedule Castes". According to a notification of the varsity, this committee would examine reservation rosters prepared by the university and its colleges from time to time for the purpose of recruitment of teaching and non-teaching posts.
"The committee would examine reservation rosters prepared by the university and its colleges from time to time for the purpose of recruitment of teaching and non-teaching posts for their adherence to DoPT guidelines and functional requirement of the university as laid out by the executive council," stated the notification.
"Our job would be to look at rosters…they must be in accordance with the decisions of the University of Delhi …unless and until there is some agenda to have any change. Why the committee has been constituted is because you do anything, there will always be question mark so to solve such kind of issues this committee would pursue things," principal of the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya college, SK Garg who is one of the members told The Pioneer.
The Monitoring Committee has 11 members including a retired JNU professor, RK Kale from the School of life Sciences would be the chairperson. While the other members included PD Sahre, Department of Physics, DU, HP Gangnegi, Department of Bhuddhist Studies, DU, Mayuri Gogoi from Department of Social Work, DU, Anil Aneja, Department of English and also the nodal officer of Person with Disability (PwD), SK Garg, Savita Rai, principal Daulat Ram College, Raj Kumar, VPCI Faculty, Surajit Sarkar Department of Genetics, K. Ratnabali, Department of law and Deputy Dean (legal). The convener of this committee is T. Vengadesen, the Deputy Registrar (Finance).
All of these members have been informed through a letter but no meeting has taken place regarding this so far. Earlier, DUTA has often raised the issues of irregular recruitments by university authorities.