A delegation of Delhi University teachers led by Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) president Ajay Maken on Friday met President Pranab Mukherjee and submitted a memorandum regarding several issues affecting the teachers of Delhi University.
Speaking to the reporters, Maken said that the Central Government has made a cut of 55 per cent in the Budget allocation for higher education as a result around 4,500 ad-hoc teachers of Delhi University have not been permanent.
Meanwhile, Delhi Congress on Friday also staged a protest in the city over the death of five farmers in police firing at Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh, with the party’s youth wing activists stopping a train at Tilak Bridge station.
Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) president Ajay Maken said that the police opened fire on the farmers who were protesting peacefully. Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi for working only in favour of rich people, Maken said that the BJP-ruled Central Government had promised to write off the debts of the farmers and increase the prices of their farm products but nothing has had been done in the last three years.