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High Court slams DU on Students’ Special Chance The Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) welcomes the Hon’ble Delhi High Court’s Order, on a petition filed by Law Faculty Students, restoring the privilege, as per law, of the Delhi University’s Academic Council to decide upon the issue of ‘special chance’ to be given to students who have not been able to complete their degrees in the stipulated time for extraordinary reasons. This privilege, though enshrined in the Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations of the University, had been summarily withdrawn by the University Administration through an illegal Notice which had been issued by the University’s Registrar last month. The Notice had dashed the hopes of those students who had already applied for a ‘special chance’ in order to sit for the examinations and complete their degrees. The University enrolls many students who come from financially weak and unstable families and are forced to temporarily discontinue their studies i

DUTA meets HRD Minister A DUTA delegation comprising its President, Secretary, Joint Secretary & Treasurer had a detailed meeting yesterday evening with Mr. M Pallam Raju, Hon’ble Union Minister, HRD, GOI. The DUTA Office-bearers apprised the Minister of the utter mess and the sordid state of affairs the University of Delhi is in. DUTA pointed out how the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Dinesh Singh, is by-passing the Statutory Bodies, viz, the Academic Council (AC) and the Executive Council (EC) as well as the Elected Bodies, viz, the DUTA, DUSU and DUCKU, and taking all decisions in a unilateral, authoritarian manner. That the Vice-Chancellor is flouting the University Act, Statutes, Ordinances, Rules and Regulations in bringing about innocuous and lopsided changes in the name of “Reforms”, is known to one and all. DUTA made is clear to the honourable Minister that, by his antics, Prof. Dinesh Singh is out to destroy the system of Higher Education and the Academic values the DU is k

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The Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) takes a serious view of the letters issued by the University to its teachers, asking them to evaluate papers of the semester examinations on all days of the week, including Sundays and Public Holidays. The letters also mention that all leaves will stand cancelled during the evaluation process. These letters are the latest example of all that has been going wrong in this University in recent times. They not only amount to a brazen violation of teachers’ service conditions, but also express the unnatural animosity that the V-C harbours towards teachers of the University. Many teachers who had earlier enrolled for the upcoming Refresher and Orientation Courses that are compulsory for their career advancement and professional growth, are presently bewildered and annoyed by this callous decision of the University Administration to cancel all leaves, as these courses clash with the evaluation schedules and these teachers are not being r

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The Vice-Chancellor of Delhi University, Prof. Dinesh Singh, along with members of his team visited the DUTA office today to wish the DUTA on the eve of Diwali. There was informal interaction during which the office-bearers of DUTA and others present expressed their wish that this visit should be followed by formal dialogue between the Vice Chancellor and the DUTA which is the collective body of teachers of the University of Delhi. The DUTA's Indefinite Relay Hunger Strike continued for its 34th day today with former DUTA President Prof. Shaswati Mazumdar sitting on Hunger Strike along side former Academic Council member Dr. Barkatullah Khan of the Geography department. S.D. Siddiqui, Secretary                                                      Amar Deo Sharma, President

Sleep-in protest at Delhi University 11 Nov 2012, ......supply was cut every time they tried to play it. In continuation of their ongoing protest for past 20 days, Delhi University Teachers Association and some students decided to screen The Great Dictator, a Charlie Chaplin movie on Friday evening, which was being... Guards 'rescue' VC's effigy from Oct 31, 2012 ... Protest interrupted. Members of the Delhi University Teachers’ Association could burn only one effigy on Wednesday after security guards, under orders from DU officials, took away parts of two other effigies while the protesters were assembling them.   ... www.deccanherald.com/content/.../guards-rescue-vcs-effigy-duta.html DUTA to burn vice chancellor's effigy today Oct 30, 2012 ...Delhi University Teachers’ Association on Wednesday will burn the university vice chancellor’s effigy, which will be followed by a procession. DUTA is on a relay hunger strike since the last 21 da

‘The Great Dictator’ runs into trouble VIJETHA S.N. |   NEW DELHI,   NOVEMBER 10, 2012 The Delhi University Teachers’ Association’s plans to screen Charlie Chaplain’s film on Hitler, “The Great Dictator”, at the site of their indefinite hunger strike here on Friday ran into trouble w...   » DUTA to revive tradition with “The Great Dictator” STAFF REPORTER |   NEW DELHI,   NOVEMBER 9, 2012 After walking barefoot, burning effigies and sitting on a relay hunger strike for 30 straight days, the Delhi University Teachers’ Association will now be screening a film on the life of Hitler, “T...   » Stand-off takes a nasty turn STAFF REPORTER |   NEW DELHI,   NOVEMBER 9, 2012 The stand-off between the Delhi University Teachers’ Association and the university administration started to take a nasty turn on Thursday -- Day 30 of DUTA’s relay hunger strike -- with teachers...   » DU teachers to raise the pitch of their battle against V-C STAFF REPORTER

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Teachers' protest fails to ruffle Delhi varsity VC

Teachers' protest fails to ruffle Delhi varsity VC November 8, 2012 | Manash Pratim Gohain , TNN NEW DELHI: Delhi University Teachers' Association has alleged that not only did vice-chancellor Dinesh Singh overlook the 50-odd letters it wrote to him, he also did not give an audience to the teachers' representatives ever since he took charge in October 2010. What's more, even the ongoing indefinite relay hunger strike, along with a series of protests, has failed to elicit a response from him. At a time when the university is witnessing radical reforms, his complete disconnect with... Delhi University students, teachers hold protest rally November 1, 2012 | TNN NEW DELHI: It was one of the biggest protests Delhi University has witnessed in recent times. A large number of students and non-teaching staff joined the protesting teachers to burn an effigy of the vice-chancellor on Wednesday. The DU security personnel tried to

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(on withdrawal of APS system and UGC-NET eligibility criterion for applicants who are Ph.D) The Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) welcomes the decision of the UGC Revisit Committee, set up to review its current Regulations, to scrap the Points-based Appraisal System (PBAS) for Teachers in Colleges and Universities, as well as to remove UGC-NET as an eligibility criterion for applicants who have been awarded doctorate degrees. The DUTA had submitted a detailed feedback on the Regulations, wherein it had also listed all the anomalies and oversights contained in the Sixth Pay-Revision. Keeping the uniqueness of the teaching profession in mind, the DUTA had criticized the PBAS as it mechanically quantifies a teacher’s contribution to teaching, research and participation in administrative work and reduces it to merely a race for ‘points.’ DUTA delegations have met the UGC Acting-Chairperson on several occasions and have even interacted with the UGC Revisit Committee to

(on the EC meeting of 3 November, 2012)  The irregular and unfortunate decision of the Executive Council, in its meeting held yesterday, to solely authorize the V-C to decide on and implement any measure to ensure teachers’ presence in classrooms across the University, will be resolutely opposed by the DUTA. Teachers of Delhi University are scandalized by the manner in which the Executive Council, despite opposition from the elected members, has allowed itself to be completely subverted and misled into abdicating its own statutory responsibility. On the other hand, the V-C has, with the help of his political spin doctors in the Administration, obviously sought to enthrone himself as the sole and supreme executive authority of the University. Delhi University has not become an institution of repute and academic excellence without the sustained contributions made by its teachers to the teaching-learning processes. The DUTA is very clear that the VC is desperately keen to divert