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Appointments Stalled For Over Four Years
Appointments to fill the thousands of vacant posts have not
started despite repeated promises madeby the University
Administration. Ad hoc teachers and Guest Lecturers working against
these posts
are faced with permanent uncertainty and deprived of basic
rights. The delay in permanent
appointments has caused demotivation and demoralization in the
teaching community and is bound
to cause a flight of talent away from the teaching
profession.
The recent EC decisions on Screening of candidates, modalities
for implementing the Reservation
roster and composition of Selection Committees threaten to
derail the appointment process since
they are not in consonance with legal requirements and the
principles of social and academic justice.
The DUTA demands that the University reconsider these decisions,
take prompt corrective
steps and start the appointment process without any further
delay.
Screening Criteria
The Screening Criteria adopted by the EC for inviting candidates
for interview for posts of Assistant
Professors is based on API scores. The University has removed
the cap on the number of candidates
to be called for interviews, but has introduced minimum points
expected from candidates (60 for
colleges, 75 for departments) which are unacceptable. Many young
aspirants will not have the
requisite points. To impose a point system on candidates coming
from different universities following
different marking and evaluation systems is unacademic and
irrational. The disparity in points
required for colleges and University departments also threatens
to introduce academic and
professional discrimination between college and university
teachers. The University administration
has not made appointments for over four years. As a result,
thousands of posts have to be filled. The
DUTA demands withdrawal of the screening criteria. All
candidates eligible under the UGC's
Minimum Eligibility Criteria (55% in Master's with NET) must be
invited for the interviews.
Reservation Roster
The EC decision on modalities for implementing the 200 Point
Post-based Roster for teachingpositions taking the College or the
University as a unit are not in consonance with the clear
directives
of the UGC, MHRD and DoPT (GOI). The EC decided to apply the
Roster to an alphabetically
ordered, department-wise list of sanctioned teaching posts. The
200-Point Roster, on the other hand,
is applicable to the college/university as a unit, in which all
existing teachers as on 2.7.1997, and
those appointed subsequently on permanent basis, have to be
listed in order of seniority. Shortfall
and backlog are to be determined for the whole
college/university and not department-wise. Once the
number of reserved vacancies is identified, they may be
distributed over different departments
proportionately. The arbitrary method being adopted by the
University will result in faulty rosters that
will be open to manipulation, create disparities between
departments and undo the benefits of
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reservation. The University has also unilaterally declared 3
September 2013 as the cut-off date for
implementation of the 200-Point Roster. This will make backlog
non-existent though reservation for
SCs/STs came into effect from 1997 and for OBCs from 2007. The
University has also declared thatshortfall (calculated
department-wise) will only be filled when current incumbents retire
or resign. The
DUTA demands that the modalities be amended in accordance with
GOI directives.
Selection Committees
The composition of Selection Committees approved by the EC is
not in consonance with the UGC
Regulations, 2010. Appointments made through these Selection
Committees may be struck down by
the Visitor as was the case in 2004. The Visitor had directed on
10.1.2004 that appointments be held
in abeyance till Selection Committees were brought in consonance
with the UGC Regulations. The
DUTA demands that the composition of the Selection Committee be
in consonance with the
UGC Regulations so that the appointment process is not further
delayed on any pretext.
Application Fee
The DUTA demands withdrawal of the Rs. 250 application fee. The
University should ensure that
money collected as application fee by colleges be immediately
refunded to applicants.
Nandita Narain Sandeep Harish Khanna Anita Ghosh Bhupinder
Chaudhry
President Vice-President Secretary Jt. Secretary Treasurer
The DUTA congratulates the University community for coming
together under the joint
leadership of DUTA, DUCKU and DUSU to demand justice for Pavitra
Bhardwaj. The
sustained pressure generated by the visible public campaign has
resulted in the suspension of the
Principal of B.R.Ambedkar College, but much more needs to be
done to secure justice for Pavitra, to
expose similar violations in other colleges such as ARSD, and to
create the democratic environment
necessary for the implementation of Ordinance XV(D) in letter
and spirit.
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The first semester under the FYUP is underway and there is
widespread discontent in regard to the
courses, infrastructure, hurried manner of implementation and
repeated changes in decisions in regard
to teaching and evaluation. Confusion is also widespread amongst
students over the pattern ofexamination/ evaluation. Meanwhile, the
VC has been conducting raids in several colleges, in order to
malign teachers and deflect attention from his own lack of
academic and administrative accountability.
The DUTA has asked for feedbackfrom all Staff
Associations/Departmental Councils by Tuesday, 22
October 2013 so that we can chart out the future course of
action.
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