DU Teachers Oppose the Semester System

The meeting will also discuss teachers’ service conditions proposed by UGC as well as the demand to drop the biometric IDs.

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After stalling the biometric IDs — to keep a check on teacher attendance — proposal at the Executive Council meeting, Delhi University teachers will now show their opposition to the proposed semester system for the undergraduate level on Tuesday, when the teachers meet for a General Body meeting.

 

Plans are big, as the teachers will also stage dharnas in their respective colleges from 11 am to 1 pm on December 18, take out a march from Mandi House to the ministry of human resource development on December 22 and similar protests will continue into January 2010 as well.

 

Teachers will gather at the new Arts Faculty convocation hall for the meet called by the Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA). DUTA executives met on Saturday and resolved to oppose the semester system for the undergraduate level, which is supposed to come into effect from the 2010-11 academic sessions. The university recently prepared a final draft of plans for implementation of the semester system.

 

After the meet, the teachers will march towards the vice chancellor’s office, where they will demand a fresh debate on the semester system and a rollback on the proposed biometric IDs system. The semester system cannot be implemented without a proper debate on its feasibility and without the Academic Council’s (AC) approval. But according to university officials and the minutes of the AC, the proposal has been passed, with 19 in dissent against 126 votes in favor.

 

Delhi University Teachers don’t want negative impact on service conditions and have been trying to say that to the university, UGC and the ministry of human resources. The semester system, the proposed service conditions for teachers, and the biometric IDs proposal is a package of negative service conditions and teachers are bound to oppose such a move. Moreover, the university administration has been taking decisions arbitrarily without consulting teachers.

 

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