DU Teachers Association demands absorption of Ad-hoc teachers

The Delhi University Teachers Association has termed the education minister’s statement on the number of ad-hoc teachers in central universities as false.

Delhi University teachers have expressed categorical objection to the statement made by the Education Minister on the floor of the Lok Sabha on July 26, 2021, in response to a question about the number of ad-hoc teachers serving in various universities of the country.

The education minister then informed the Lok Sabha that there are 58 ad-hoc teachers in the University of Delhi as on April 1, 2021, while 74 ad-hoc teachers are working in all 45 central universities.

However, according to DUTA, there are around 4500 teachers who are currently working on an ad-hoc basis at Delhi University. “The number increasing every day as no recruitment have taken place for more than ten years now and many teachers have superannuated in the interim period,” the teachers association said in a statement.

They have claimed that the ad-hoc teachers of Delhi University are facing an extremely uncertain future as the education minister also said that neither the government nor the University Grants Commission (UGC) has any plan to absorb ad-hoc teachers.

Various State Governments have initiated such processes of regularization for teachers in their State Universities through notified executive orders. In 2009, the UGC had asked universities and other institutes to absorb UGC Research Scientists working in the units.

The DUTA has demanded a One-Time Regulation for the absorption of the temporary/ad-hoc teachers in the University. It stated: “Considering that the Supreme Court in its judgement of 1994 (Raj Singh versus the University of Delhi) and reiterated in 2016 (the Kalyani judgement) makes it mandatory for Universities to follow UGC Regulations in cases of direct recruitment and promotion, we demand that the UGC/MHRD frames a specific regulation which allows for the absorption of serving temporary/ad-hoc teachers working against vacancies which are approved and earmarked according to the reservation roster meant for teaching positions in the University."

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