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DUTA demands fo the filling up of DU vacancies
DUTA also plans to hold a protest outside UGC later this month
| New Delhi | February 07 2012
The Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) will hold a protest in all colleges under the university for four days starting on Tuesday. The protest will be held in the morning colleges from 11am to 2pm and from 3pm to 5pm in the evening colleges.
The protest will not affect working hours as they will be conducted during the lunch and coffee breaks in these colleges. Thus, no classes will be suspended.
DUTA says that it is fighting for many issues and one of them is the appointment of new teachers. S D Siddiqui, secretary of the association, said, "Even when there are more than 4,000 vacancies, there have been no regular appointments for more than two years now."
The teacher’s association also says that there have been delays in promotions and payment of pensions of retired professors.
Siddiqui added, “When all this is happening in the university, the vice chancellor professor Dinesh Singh is not ready to meet DUTA representatives. There is dictatorship and no rule of law.”
Singh was not available for comments.
On February 7, protests will be held at Daulat Ram College, Hans Raj College, SGTB Khalsa College, LBC, KMC, Miranda House, St. Stephens’ College, Hindu College, Ramjus College, SRCC, Satyawati College (M & E), SOL, Aditi Mahavidyalaya, SSN College.
DUTA plans to hold demonstrations outside the UGC office later this month.
I am doing my post-graduation in DU and I don't understand this resistance to the semester system. I did my graduation from Bangalore University where the semester system came into force in 2004. Most of the teachers who have taught both under both the annual and the semester system say that the workload remained nearly the same. The quality of education also did not diminish, I assume, because the same teachers taught the same subjects that my seniors had studied a few years before under the annual system. In fact, I think the students' workload decreased, logically speaking, because there was no need to revise the entire year's syllabus. It also gave the students a chance to have a better overall grade by splitting the examinations into six. so, if one did unwell in one semester one had the chance to make do in five others thereby pulling up one's grade. Under the annual system, with a the need to prepare for a year's syllabus, one did not succeed often in such attempts. I think it is time that the DU teachers put their narrow concerns aside and concentrated on the students' aspirations.
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