Teachers' association calls upon faculty to boycott work

DU admission process may be crippled

Teachers' association calls upon faculty to boycott work

The Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) is no mood to bury the hatchet. Having clear differences with the implementation of semester system and being vocal about the issues related to it, the association has now appealed to all the teachers to not assist in the ongoing admission process and to prepare the time-table for the coming session of 2010-11.

MiD DAY takes stock of the situation and lists the probable impediments that might cripple the admission procedure because of the striking teachers.
The first phase, which is the sale of common admission forms, will get least affected as this work is mostly carried out by the non-teaching staff of colleges. However, DUTA predicts that problems will ariseu00a0 just after that.

In the first step, involvement of teachers is limited to counselling of students. They have problems with filling of the forms for which senior students have been trained. However in special cases, some of the students want to meet teachers to get their doubts cleared," said Aditya Narayan Misra, president, DUTA.

"In between the sale of forms and release of the first cut-off list, there are examinations conducted for someu00a0 courses. These exams will be adversely affected if we dissociate from the process. There would be no one to check those papers, as a result of which list of successful candidates can not be released," explained Misra.
Condemning the move of the VC in making the admission under sports category centralised against the existing practices of college-wise admission, DUTA asserted that sports quota admission will also get affected for some students.

Ultimately, the students will have to feel the heat. Admission process will be delayed, which will stall the new session. However, the students seeking admission are optimistic. "I hope teachers will act in a rational manner. Our career is entirely dependent on their decision," said a student Aditya Narang.

The DUTA executive committee in its meeting held on May 29, 2010 expressed serious concern that Vice-Chancellor Prof. Deepak Pental had been, during the last one year, consistently flouting all norms in statutory decision-making on the issue of semester system at the UG level (non-professional courses).