Over 650 ad hoc teachers given pink slip
25 July 2014 5:50 AM IST
Around 4500 ad hoc teachers have been affected by the same. Over 650 teachers have already been denied reappointment.
The roll back has resulted in loss of jobs/displacement of many ad hoc teachers and concomitant loss of summer salary. ‘Workload has gone down drastically. Large number of adhoc teachers have been displaced. It has affected their job perspective and also, salary perspective. A well qualified person who has done PhD, why would he/she would work for summer salary?
Ad hoc teachers issue is a serious concern. The university has betrayed them. Many ad hoc teachers are unemployed and on road. If there is any honesty left, university should take back ad hoc teachers. Workload should be restored. Then only ad hoc teachers will get their job. Given the condition of teachers, why would eminent researchers or professors come to DU? It has become question of survival. Even the colleges like Miranda House, Kamala Nehru College who took teachers back, terminated them next day.
Such concerns need to be address,’ said Aditya Narayan Misra, DU Executive Council member and former president of Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA). Though the University Grants Commission wrote a letter on 21 July to re engage ad hoc teachers, the same hasn’t been implemented due to non-existence of workload to employ teachers.
With roll back of FYUP, B.Tech in Food technology, B.Tech in Psychological Science and others courses have been removed from curriculum. Many honours courses like history, english, zoology, botany, statistics, home science, mathematics and physics have been reverted to programme courses in colleges like Maharaja Agrasen, Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Shyam Lal, PGDAV, Kalindi , Motilal (evening), Ramanujan, Aurbindo and such. This has led to reduction in workload, further leaving around 680 teachers unemployed.
 ‘We tried a lot and we are still fighting for ad hoc teachers. A letter was issued by UGC to appoint ad hoc teachers. It is just authoritative principals who are not re appointing ad hoc teachers. Workload hasn’t been properly calculated. Even in OBC category, teachers are not being appointed. It is due to some principals with certain political inclination that this situation has arisen. For us, even single teacher is important. Some people are unnecessarily creating chaos in the university,’ said Pramod Shastri, spokesperson, NDTF, which has been credited with the rollback of FYUP.
The roll back has resulted in loss of jobs/displacement of many ad hoc teachers and concomitant loss of summer salary. ‘Workload has gone down drastically. Large number of adhoc teachers have been displaced. It has affected their job perspective and also, salary perspective. A well qualified person who has done PhD, why would he/she would work for summer salary?
Ad hoc teachers issue is a serious concern. The university has betrayed them. Many ad hoc teachers are unemployed and on road. If there is any honesty left, university should take back ad hoc teachers. Workload should be restored. Then only ad hoc teachers will get their job. Given the condition of teachers, why would eminent researchers or professors come to DU? It has become question of survival. Even the colleges like Miranda House, Kamala Nehru College who took teachers back, terminated them next day.
Such concerns need to be address,’ said Aditya Narayan Misra, DU Executive Council member and former president of Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA). Though the University Grants Commission wrote a letter on 21 July to re engage ad hoc teachers, the same hasn’t been implemented due to non-existence of workload to employ teachers.
With roll back of FYUP, B.Tech in Food technology, B.Tech in Psychological Science and others courses have been removed from curriculum. Many honours courses like history, english, zoology, botany, statistics, home science, mathematics and physics have been reverted to programme courses in colleges like Maharaja Agrasen, Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Shyam Lal, PGDAV, Kalindi , Motilal (evening), Ramanujan, Aurbindo and such. This has led to reduction in workload, further leaving around 680 teachers unemployed.
 ‘We tried a lot and we are still fighting for ad hoc teachers. A letter was issued by UGC to appoint ad hoc teachers. It is just authoritative principals who are not re appointing ad hoc teachers. Workload hasn’t been properly calculated. Even in OBC category, teachers are not being appointed. It is due to some principals with certain political inclination that this situation has arisen. For us, even single teacher is important. Some people are unnecessarily creating chaos in the university,’ said Pramod Shastri, spokesperson, NDTF, which has been credited with the rollback of FYUP.
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