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DU Teachers Organised a Human Chain With Students Across Colleges; Demand the Resolution of Pending Issues from DU VC and MHRD                              Delhi University Teachers' Association organised a Human Chain today at the Arts Faculty to highlight the unprecedented crisis in the University of Delhi owing to the apathy of the DU VC and the MHRD. This action programme is part of the ongoing mobilisation against the anti-education policies of the Government like Tripartite MoU, HEFA, Scheme of Autonomous Colleges, Tampering of DU Act, Imposition of CCS-ESMA, Contractual Employment, Drastic Cuts in Research Seats and attack on the Reservation Policy in teachers' appointments which has challenged the very ethos of the University system. Hundreds of teachers and students assembled today to form the Human Chain to prepare for the total strike to be observed on Feb 27, 28 & March 1 against the policies enumerated above. Teachers who participated in the Human C

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DUTA Condemns assault on Law Faculty teacher                              The DUTA strongly condemns the assault by a student on a Law Faculty teacher who had reportedly raised some questions on the veracity of a WhatsApp video, allegedly containing representations of the Pulwama Terror attack, shown to him by the student. The student’s "justification" for the assault, that the teacher’s questions hurt his nationalist sentiment, is completely unacceptable. Teachers and students must be guaranteed the freedom to express their own views and argue their own opinions, however unpopular or contrarian, within a democratic educational institution. This freedom is integral to the survival of critical thinking. An educator’s prerogative to introduce heterogenous ideas and question or insist on empirical verification of any statement or representation is sacrosanct, as without this prerogative, learners cannot be guided towards either objective awareness or self-reflexive d

Termination of the services of Dr.Manoj Kumar, English teacher at CU, Haryana is malafide ; decision should to be revoked The FEDCUTA condemns the arbitrary termination of Dr.Manoj Kumar, Assistant Professor of English at the Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, by the university administration.The Teachers Association of the Central University of Haryana has rightly pointed out in a press release that the termination effected by a malicious and retrospective application of the UGC regulations of 2009 on a PhD awarded in 2007, despite an exemption certificate being given by the concerned University on the lines of the UGC Regulation of 2010( Fourth Amendment),  smacks of victimisation. From the press reports and the teachers statement it is clear that Dr.Manoj Kumar, Acting President of the Central University of Haryana Teachers' Association(CUHTA), is being targeted for his initiatives in forming and building a teachers association in the un

DUTA Letter to Staff Associations, 23.02.2019                              To President/Secretary/Office Bearers _______ _______ 23.02.2019 Dear Colleagues, More than thirty thousand students, teachers, non-teaching employees and parents from different states marched under the banner of the Joint Forum for Movement on Education (JFME) on 19 February 2019 from Mandi House to Parliament Street. Students, teachers and karamcharis from across the country marched to demand a reversal of the Privatisation Policies that have led to social exclusion and denial of rights. The JFME Save Campus, Education, Save Nation Rally was organised through the joint initiative of the AIFUCTO, DUTA and FEDCUTA along with National-level Secondary School Teachers’ Association and all-India students’ organisations. The vibrant Rally culminated in a massive Public Meeting that was addressed by eminent educationists, members of Parliament and leaders of all major national political parties.

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The DUTA resolves to intensify its ongoing movement                                           A meeting of the General Body of DUTA was held today at 12:30 pm in the Hansraj College today. The General Body calls for immediate intensification of the movement through series of participatory action programmes followed by Strike. The DUTA warns the Government against dilly-dally on the matter of Reservation Roster and demands immediate resolution through an Ordinance on 200 point College/University-wise roster. In order to mitigate the plight of the over 4000 teachers in Delhi University teaching on adhoc basis, the DUTA reiterated its demand for a UGC Regulation for the One-time absorption of these teachers. At the same time, teachers are exercised about the state of absolute paralysis of administration at the hands of Prof Yogesh Tyagi who has not moved an inch towards resolution of the issues. The DUTA General Body also noted that there is an unprecedented policy assault

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DU Teachers hold Extensive Interactions on Ongoing Movement With Students Across Colleges; Jointly Mobilise for JFME National Rally                                           The DUTA's call for a Nation-wide Mobilisation against the Government's skewed policies of Commercialisation, Loan-funding, Contractual Employment, Drastic Cuts in Research Seats and attack on the Reservation Policy in teachers' appointments has found an overwhelming response from students across DU colleges. Despite inclement weather conditions, thousands of teachers and students have held extensive interactions in the last two days, in preparation for the 19 February JFME Save Nation, Save Education Rally , to be jointly organised under the banner of DUTA, FEDCUTA and AIFUCTO. Students and teachers jointly organised a Human Chain in IP College while students in Kamla Nehru and Gargi College had poster-making sessions.  Teachers and students held solidarity meetings in  several colleges i

FEDCUTA Press Release on AMU Incident, 14.02.2019 The attack on students by the current government and their political activists continues unabated since the killing of Rohit Vemula and Feb 2016 incident in JNU. In Uttar Pradesh a combination of lawlessness and the Hindutva ideology is producing brutal consequences for the Youth. Numerous incidents have come to light in Western Uttar Pradesh, since the new government has come to power, where the youth from specific caste and religious backgrounds are being killed, targeted and hounded with the active partnership of the state police. Latest incident in this list is that of 14 students of Aligarh Muslim University have been booked under sedition on March 12, 2019. They have been booked after so called clashes that followed a confrontation of students with a journalist from a news channel Republic TV. The manner and hurriedness with which the case has been registered shows that the case has been registered