DU’s Shaheed Sukhdev College teachers request to hold online classes from home amid COVID-19 surge

According to the claims of the SSCBS staff association, online teaching was being conducted from the campus until April 6 even though the institute’s first COVID-19 positive case was diagnosed on April 1.

The staff association of Delhi University’s Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies (SSCBS) approached the college principal to allow teachers to take classes online from home considering the rising COVID-19 cases across the nation. Currently, following the instruction from the Council, the teachers are conducting online classes from the college campus. According to the claims of the SSCBS staff association, online teaching was being conducted from the campus until April 6 even though the institute’s first COVID-19 positive case was diagnosed on April 1. The teachers have assured that the teaching-learning process will not be disrupted if they hold online classes from home.

Due to the directives received from the University, Poonam Verma, principal, SSCBS, however, told that the college cannot allow all the teachers to take online classes from home “We are providing individual rooms to every teacher to conduct online classes from campus. Those who are suspicious of having caught the virus are being advised to take quarantine leaves to get tested. Besides, all teachers who are testing positive are allowed to take medical leaves. Since the university has not rolled out an order to allow teachers to work from home, we cannot make such a provision at the college level,” Verma said.

As per the guidelines released by the DU on April 12, teaching/learning for undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) students will continue in online mode only in all the colleges, centres and departments of the university. As per PC Joshi, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, DU, the university is only abiding by the guidelines released by the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) and Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

“As per the DDMA guidelines, Group ‘A’ officers have to work from the office and teachers happen to be a part of the group. I have visited around 40 colleges in the past month, and teachers in all the colleges are being provided with an adequate environment while following standard operation procedures (SOPs). Besides, if specific teachers are unable to come to the campus for any valid reasons, the principal is free to decide at his/her end,” Joshi said.

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