Press Release, 28.11.2013

DUTA Press Release: November 28, 2013


The Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) condemns the Delhi Government’s anti-teacher move to freeze new appointments in the twelve Delhi Government-funded colleges of the University of Delhi. While the long-standing vacancies in these colleges have been approved and the University community is waiting eagerly for the appointments process to begin, the State Higher Education Department has lately come out with a notification banning all appointments for the time-being. The DUTA questions the basis of this notification and the moral right of a Government facing elections to take such a major policy decision. It is clear that the Congress Government in Delhi is acting in tandem with the Congress-led Central Government’s anti-people policies in Higher Education to bring about the quick destruction of public-funded universities like DU.

The DUTA has been continuously underlining the fact that the abnormally large number of teaching vacancies in the University has created a severe crisis in the stability of teaching-learning and has contributed to the steady erosion of the University’s academic credibility. During the last couple of years, it has appealed to authorities at various agencies of the state and central governments to ensure that the process is not subjected to any further delay. In this context, the Delhi Government’s decision to deprive these twelve colleges of the teachers they so urgently require amounts to an arrogant refusal to meet the public needs in education. The DUTA urges the Delhi Government to immediately withdraw this retrograde notification, failing which it will launch intense agitations and a public campaign against the outgoing government.


 NANDITA NARAIN
 President, DUTA