DUTA holds march to protest non-payment of salaries to staff of 12 Delhi govt-funded colleges
Thousands of Delhi University academics took to streets on Monday to protest non-payment of salaries to the staff of 12 Delhi government-funded colleges of the DU. Led by Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA), the “Adhikar rally” was held from Delhi University’s VC workplace to the Chief Minister’s workplace in opposition to the Delhi authorities’s “arbitrary and unreasonable” stance in the direction of the 12 DU colleges.
“For more than a year now, employees have not been paid salaries and pensions on time, as grants have not been released on time for one or the other reason,” the DUTA stated in a press release.
The DUTA additionally alleged that the Delhi authorities has given the cost of the 12 colleges to senior accounts officers (Sr AOs), changing the principals via an earlier order of the Finance Division.
A delegation of DUTA and Delhi University Principals’ Association (DUPA) workplace bearers additionally met appearing vice chancellor P C Joshi and Dean, colleges Balaram Pani, urging them for motion in opposition to the February 17 order of the Finance Division.
The appearing VC and the dean assured intervention by the college on the matter, the assertion stated.
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The DUTA stated protesting academics, staff and college students additionally raised slogans in opposition to the Delhi authorities’s alleged “attempt to bring in conditions of the NEP through a dubious document called the ‘Pattern of Assistance’ which it (Delhi govt) is autocratically seeks to impose through the Governing Bodies of these colleges”.
“These are clearly attempts to divert attention to extraneous issues and to mislead the public from the real issue in its attempt to wriggle out of its responsibility towards these public institutions and push them towards commercialisation,” Rajib Ray, president- DUTA, stated within the assertion.
The DUTA additionally submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who didn’t meet the academics’ representatives, the assertion stated.
The delegation additionally urged the college officers to ask the Delhi authorities to withdraw “Pattern of Assistance” and to inform members of the
Governing Bodies of these colleges that it was in violation of the college framework inside which these constituent colleges have been fashioned and have functioned.Â
