DUTA hunger strike enters Day 2
12 Oct 2012 6:42 AM IST
After getting a flying start, DUTA’s indefinite relay hunger strike continued on the second day, with 11 teachers from SGTB Khalsa College, Sri Aurobindo (Morning) College, Kirori Mal College and Ram Lal Anand (Evening) College sitting alongside members of DUTA Executive and elected members of the Academic Council and Executive Council of the university.
DUTA joint secretary D N Dahiya also sat on hunger strike. The association has now decided to observe a candle-light vigil on Friday, 5-7 pm, to highlight the plight of the 4,000 ad-hoc teachers, who have been awaiting the start of the appointment process.
On the second day, DUTA strike was actively joined by the office bearers of non-teaching staff union, DUCKU, outside the VC’s office and they addressed a packed gathering of teachers and students. They expressed their complete solidarity with the DUTA struggle.
Teachers from IP College, Miranda House, Mata Sundri College and Hindu College also attended in large numbers. By late afternoon, the count of teachers who had come to express their support for the strike had gone up.
Inder Mohan Kapahy, former AC and EC member and long-time DUTA activist, lambasted the VC for hurtling the university into chaos and anarchy by taking hasty and dictatorial steps to bring about changes which are lacking in accountability.
Vijender Sharma, former DUTA president argued that while any university has the public responsibility to ensure that the theoretical and practical foundations of democracy are kept intact in its functioning, the DU VC has put the university in an indefensible position by scuttling the expression of democratic opinion and paralysing statutory systems at every level.
DUTA joint secretary D N Dahiya also sat on hunger strike. The association has now decided to observe a candle-light vigil on Friday, 5-7 pm, to highlight the plight of the 4,000 ad-hoc teachers, who have been awaiting the start of the appointment process.
On the second day, DUTA strike was actively joined by the office bearers of non-teaching staff union, DUCKU, outside the VC’s office and they addressed a packed gathering of teachers and students. They expressed their complete solidarity with the DUTA struggle.
Teachers from IP College, Miranda House, Mata Sundri College and Hindu College also attended in large numbers. By late afternoon, the count of teachers who had come to express their support for the strike had gone up.
Inder Mohan Kapahy, former AC and EC member and long-time DUTA activist, lambasted the VC for hurtling the university into chaos and anarchy by taking hasty and dictatorial steps to bring about changes which are lacking in accountability.
Vijender Sharma, former DUTA president argued that while any university has the public responsibility to ensure that the theoretical and practical foundations of democracy are kept intact in its functioning, the DU VC has put the university in an indefensible position by scuttling the expression of democratic opinion and paralysing statutory systems at every level.
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