Teachers reduced to bonded labourers: AAP

The Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) has boycotted the undergraduation evaluation process in the university since the last two days to protest against it.

The AAP Wednesday termed a notification by the UGC, which increases teachers’ “workload” by eight hours per week, as “inhuman, insensitive and unethical”.

As per the notification, teachers’ workload — the number of hours mandated by UGC for taking lectures — is going to increase from 16 hours to 24 hours per week. The Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) has boycotted the undergraduation evaluation process in the university since the last two days to protest against it.

AAP’s Delhi unit convener Dilip Pandey said, “The central government is introducing these rules even when teachers already have the task of correcting test papers… because of this new rule by UGC, 3,500 ad hoc teachers in DU are likely to be affected. They will lose their livelihood. AAP condemns this new rule and will oppose it.

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S A Jafri, president of the newly-formed AAP’s teachers’ wing University Teachers’ Forum, said the new notification would lead to teachers “being reduced to bonded labourers”. “If the notification isn’t scrapped, thousands of teachers would take to the streets in protest,” he said.

The Forum also alleged that it was an effort by the RSS to fill up academic posts with its own cadre. “… For this, it is necessary that teachers who have been teaching on an ad hoc basis or as guest faculty go out first. They can’t win the hearts of the teaching faculty and therefore have to send them out by force,” said Professor S D Siddiqui, adviser to the teachers’ wing.

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