Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) will stage a protest on Wednesday against the university administration and will ‘gherao’ the Vice-Chancellor (VC) Yogesh Tyagi to withdraw the notification issued on the 28 August, according to which all the ad-hoc teachers will be converted into guest teachers and will get salary per lecture.
The teachers will also boycott teaching and invigilation work for the mid-semester examination which will start from 4th December.
As per the notifications issued by the Delhi University Administrations, all the teachers working in the university on ad-hoc basis will be converted on the terms of ‘guest teachers’.
Conversion of 5,000 ad-hoc teachers into guest teachers on the basis of 28th August letter is strongly condemnable. While ad-hoc appointment is a full time job with full scale where ad-hoc teachers are getting Rs 90,000 per month, a guest appointment is a part time job where they would not get more than 45,000 per month.
“From last 10 years more than 5,000 teachers are working on ad-hoc basis in various colleges and Departments of Delhi University with no fault of their as University is delaying the selection on permanent vacancies citing one reason or the other. These teachers are totally dependent on their salaries for the school fees of their children, installments to be paid for Home loans and other loans and others expenses to run their day to day life. 28th letter communicated to various colleges must be withdrawn immediately and all existing vacancies of teachers in various subjects must be permanently filled,’ said the teachers.
Under which rule appointments, after joining, can be kept in abeyance? Salaries of ad-hoc teachers must be released immediately. Letter dated 28th August, 2019 must be withdrawn immediately,” Professor Pankaj Garg, former member of DU academic council.