DUTA Protest March Against Tripartite MoU and MHRD's Freeze on Permanent Appointments joined by Hundreds of Teachers and Students
Hundreds of teachers and students marched under the DUTA's banner from Mandi House to the Parliament to protest the Central Government's bullying insistence on the Tripartite MoU and its failure to issue an Ordinance on the Reservation Roster that will help resume permanent appointments for the thousands of vacant teaching posts across DU departments and colleges.
The DUTA is categorically opposed to the Tripartite MoU because it asks the University and its colleges to generate resources through regular fee-hikes, increased enrollment and mobilise revenue from corporate sources, alumni and through self-financed courses. It also puts an end to UGC grants and forces the University to take infrastructure loans through HEFA. Additionally, it allows the MHRD to set absurd quantified targets for the qualitative assessment and learning outcomes of courses offered in the University.
This ill-conceived move will have drastic adverse effects on Equity, Access and Quality in higher education. The DUTA urges the Government to immediately withdraw the Tripartite MoU and allow a wider debate ways to strengthen higher education.
The DUTA has also highlighted the Government's failure to honour its own promise of issuing an Ordinance on the Reservation Roster to enable universities to maintain status quo in appointments while the issue is being reviewed by the Supreme Court. The failure of the Government to issue an Ordinance has resulted in a freeze on the overdue process of permanent recruitment. The DUTA wants to remind the HRD Minister that his inability to keep his word on permanent appointments will aggravate the already prevalent state of discontent and unrest among teachers and students across universities.
The DUTA has repeatedly written to the MHRD, urging it to release the revised allowances for teachers and non-teaching staff and revised pensions for all retired employees. Despite the notification of the 7th Pay Revision in November last year, the Government is still dragging its feet and delaying the payment of dues to teachers and other employees of universities and colleges. This neglect of higher education points towards the cynical indifference of the Union Government.
The DUTA will mobilise wider sections of the academic community and unions against the Government's attempts to dismantle public-funded higher education and deny education access to common people if the MHRD continues to insist on the MoU, denies permanent appointments and due revisions in allowances and pensions.
Final Memorandum to MHRD - 10 October 2018 - Link
The DUTA is categorically opposed to the Tripartite MoU because it asks the University and its colleges to generate resources through regular fee-hikes, increased enrollment and mobilise revenue from corporate sources, alumni and through self-financed courses. It also puts an end to UGC grants and forces the University to take infrastructure loans through HEFA. Additionally, it allows the MHRD to set absurd quantified targets for the qualitative assessment and learning outcomes of courses offered in the University.
The DUTA has also highlighted the Government's failure to honour its own promise of issuing an Ordinance on the Reservation Roster to enable universities to maintain status quo in appointments while the issue is being reviewed by the Supreme Court. The failure of the Government to issue an Ordinance has resulted in a freeze on the overdue process of permanent recruitment. The DUTA wants to remind the HRD Minister that his inability to keep his word on permanent appointments will aggravate the already prevalent state of discontent and unrest among teachers and students across universities.
The DUTA has repeatedly written to the MHRD, urging it to release the revised allowances for teachers and non-teaching staff and revised pensions for all retired employees. Despite the notification of the 7th Pay Revision in November last year, the Government is still dragging its feet and delaying the payment of dues to teachers and other employees of universities and colleges. This neglect of higher education points towards the cynical indifference of the Union Government.
The DUTA will mobilise wider sections of the academic community and unions against the Government's attempts to dismantle public-funded higher education and deny education access to common people if the MHRD continues to insist on the MoU, denies permanent appointments and due revisions in allowances and pensions.
Final Memorandum to MHRD - 10 October 2018 - Link
| Rajib Ray President, DUTA Vivek Chaudhary Secretary, DUTA |
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