Ad-hoc teachers form backbone of teaching in DU depts, colleges – Times of India
In many colleges, advert-hoc teachers account for round 70 per cent of the school. As per DU knowledge for 57 colleges, over 3,500 advert-hoc teachers are working there.
According to Delhi University, 135 advert-hoc teachers are working at Daulatram College, 134 at Ramjas College, 126 at Shri Venkateshwara College, 114 at Kalindi College, 110 at Deshbandhu College, 109 at Shyama Prasad Mukherjee College, 104 at Dayal Singh College, 96 at Shaheed Rajguru College, 99 at Mata Sundari College, 87 at Gargi College, 84 at Kamla Nehru College, 84 at Janaki Devi Memorial College, 81 at Kirorimal College, 79 at Indraprastha College, 75 at Shri Aurobindo College, and 75 at Sriram College of Commerce.
The subject of advert-hoc teachers was raised in the Rajya Sabha, whereby college- and 12 months-sensible particulars had been sought from the Ministry of Education.
MPs Vishambhar Prasad Nishad, Chaudhary Sukhram Singh Yadav, and others requested Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal in regards to the rising quantity of advert-hoc teachers and the explanations for non-appointment of everlasting teachers in the Delhi varsity.
As per DU data, 3,530 posts of teachers are mendacity vacant in 57 colleges.
In reply, Pokhriyal stated that the college had knowledgeable the federal government that 56 advert-hoc teachers had been appointed in the educational 12 months 2020-21 in DU departments, including that filling up vacant posts was a steady course of.
“Being an autonomous body created under the Act of Parliament, the right to fill up the posts lies with the university. As per UGC regulations, all sanctioned, approved posts in the university system are to be filled up on an urgent basis. The UGC as well as the Ministry are continuously monitoring the process.”
Pokhriyal stated that the college had marketed posts of 857 everlasting school, together with Professor, Associate and Assistant Professors, in July 2019.
Dr Hansraj Suman of Delhi University Teachers Association advised IANS that 57 DU colleges have 3,530 advert-hoc teachers on its rolls at current.
“Altogether, there are more than 6,000 ad-hoc teachers in the entire DU. Further, the DU has not given any details of posts on which ad-hoc teachers have been appointed in the last five years, in addition to quota seats,” he stated.
Dr Suman claimed that the appointment course of was taken up in some departments or colleges however shut halfway. He stated that he had written to the college to provoke the method of everlasting appointments.
“For the last three months, the process of making permanent appointments in the departments was going on but it was stopped till the new Vice Chancellor took charge,” he alleged.
