The Delhi Teachers’ Association (DTA), lecturers’ wing of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), have requested Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to instantly launch the grants of the 12 Delhi University (DU) faculties funded by town authorities.
According to Hansraj Suman, DTA president, a delegation of lecturers from the 12 faculties met him and mentioned hundreds of educational and non-teaching employees usually are not getting their salaries on time and thus, going through a monetary disaster.
“The teachers in some colleges have not received their salaries for two months. The teachers have told Suman that months have passed since they were promoted and they have not been paid arrears to date. Similarly, their medical bills have not been cleared,” a press release learn.
Suman mentioned not solely the wage funds have been affected as a result of non-release of grants, however medical payments, retirement advantages and different improvement bills are additionally pending in these faculties. He demanded from the Delhi authorities that the arrears for the promotion of the lecturers must also be launched quickly.
“The DTA has urged the chief minister and the deputy chief minister to help the 12 fully-funded colleges by the Delhi government without any further delay in releasing the funds so that the salaries and other dues are paid to the teachers and staff in this extremely difficult and stressful time,” the assertion learn.
Apart from DDUC, the opposite faculties funded by the Delhi authorities are — Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women, Aditi Mahavidyalaya, Keshav Mahavidyalaya, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Bhagini Nivedita College, Acharya Narendra Dev College, Maharishi Balmiki College of Education, Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science and Maharaja Agrasen College.
The DUTA had urged vice-chancellor Yogesh Singh earlier to convene a particular assembly of the Executive Council of the college to contemplate the “remedial measures” to take care of the present monetary disaster within the faculties funded by town authorities.
In a press release dated June 17, the DUTA had mentioned the college ought to take into account the takeover of the 12 faculties funded by the Delhi authorities. It had identified that these faculties had been in need of funds to pay the salaries and different dues of the lecturers and workers due to the non-release of funds by the federal government.
With inputs from PTI.
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Source: www.financialexpress.com”