November 8, 2012 |
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...
November 1, 2012 |
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 thwart
the protesters by confiscating the effigy. The agitating teachers later
created another effigy out of paper and burned it. Although a large
number of non-teaching employees joined the protest, expressing their...
October 27, 2012 |
NEW
DELHI: The joint forces of the three main associations of DU — Delhi
University Teachers' Association, Delhi University and College
Karamchari Union, and the Delhi University Students' Union — are shaping
into a power to reckon with. Hundreds gathered for the protest on the
premises of the vice-chancellors' office in North Campus on Friday.
Another protest is planned for October 31. The teachers had already
started an indefinite...
October 26, 2012 |
NEW
DELHI: In a rare event, the teachers, students and non-teaching-staff
associations of Delhi University are joining forces. They have
announced a "joint protest" on Friday, on the premises of the
vice-chancellor's office, at the same spot where the Delhi University
Teachers' Association has been staging a relay-hunger-strike since
October 10. On Friday, they will be joined by Delhi University Students'
Union ( DUSU) as well as the Delhi University and College...
October 18, 2012 |
NEW
DELHI: Delhi University has become the exhibition ground showcasing
all forms of non-disruptive mode of protests, designed not to hamper
any classroom activities. Be it lighting of 400 candles in front of the
vice chancellor's office in protest against not filing up of the 4,000
permanent teaching posts over nearly three years last week or 'barefoot
march' on Thursday to protest against the MHRD's reforms in higher
education, the street plays in front of the venue of...
October 15, 2012 |
Delhi University's (DU) newly introduced examination reform, amidst much confrontation from the academic community, will be applicable from
October 11, 2012 |
NEW
DELHI: A total of 22 teachers went on hunger-strike on the first day of
the indefinite relay hunger strike started by the Delhi University
Teachers' Association on Wednesday. DUTA has a schedule worked out and
on the first day it was the turn of teachers from Ramjas College, Delhi
College of Arts and Commerce, Mata Sundri College, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya
and Daulat Ram College to go on strike. DUTA had written to the VC
and sent a notice to police informing them about the strike.
October 10, 2012 |
NEW
DELHI: Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) will start an
indefinite relay hunger strike on Wednesday. It said in a press
statement that it had no option but to protest against the
"undemocratic" functioning of the university. The officials, however,
assured that classes will not be disrupted. Officials claimed the
protest is supposed to highlight the alleged usurping of all academic
and decision-making powers by the VC and brazen violation of the
statutory...
September 23, 2012 |
NEW
DELHI: In a general body meeting on Saturday, the Delhi University
Teachers' Association decided to "intensify the stir" against the
vice-chancellor's policies by starting an indefinite relay hunger strike
from October 10. The meeting was held a day after DUTA members met
President Pranab Mukherjee, seeking his intervention as visitor of the
University. Apart from complaining to the President about the VC's
"stonewalling" the associations — DUTA and...
September 18, 2012 |
NEW DELHI: The Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) in its general body meeting on Saturday decided to intensify its stir
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