Delhi University: Over 5,000 teachers promoted, 838 recruited across colleges last year

NEW DELHI: Around 5,302 teachers were promoted and 838 teachers were recruited across Delhi University colleges last year, according to DU vice-chancellor Yogesh Singh. DU organised an interaction programme on the first working day of the New Year 2023. On this occasion, VC Singh gave New Year's wishes and complimented his team for their "commendable" performance in the year 2022.

Singh said that in the year 2022, 5,398 teachers have been promoted by the university including 5,302 in colleges and 96 in the university. Besides, new recruitments of 838 teachers and 249 non-teaching personnel were also done. Of total promotions done in various colleges, 3,643 assistant professors, 1,249 associate professors, and 410 professors were promoted. There were 96 promotions in the university of which 42 assistant professors, 16 associate professors, 15 professors, and 23 senior professors were promoted, according to an official statement from DU.

Giving information on the new recruitments, Singh said that a total of 719 new appointments including 712 assistant professors and 7 principals or directors were made in various colleges. Similarly, a total of 119 teaching posts including 102 assistant professors, 13 associate professors, 2 professors, and 2 principals or directors (UCMS, ACBR) were recruited in the university.

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College-wise, 33 teachers in Daulat Ram College, 58 in Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, 88 in Deshbandhu College, 15 in Dyal Singh College, 44 in Dyal Singh (Evening) College, 86 in Hansraj College, 75 in Kirori Mal College, 79 in Laxmibai College for Women, 06 in Miranda House College, 07 in PGDAV College, 47 in Ramjas College, 09 in Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce, 23 in Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, 43 in Sri Venkateswara College, 22 in Swami Shraddhanand College, 67 in University College of Medical Science and 10 in Zakir Hussain College were recruited.

82 new recruitments and 249 promotions were also done by the DU on non-teaching posts, under which 35 new recruitments and 195 promotions were done in various colleges and 47 (compensation) recruitments and 54 promotions in the University. Apart from these, 480 MACP cases in various colleges and 41 in the University were also approved.

New year plans

The VC informed that the university started new programmes including five-year LLB, Competency Enhancement Scheme, Vice Chancellor Internship Scheme, MBA (Business Analytics), and MBA, BBA, BMS, BLIS, and MLIS in SOL and many new courses in Medicine including MSc (Respiratory Therapy), DM (Medical Gastroenterology), MDS, DM, and MD last year.

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Further, Singh said that in the new year, Rs 330 crore for the new building of IOE, Rs 289.61 crore for the IOE hostel, Rs 87 crore for the construction of the computer center and Rs 110 crore for the expansion of the library will be spent. In this series, Rs 195 crore for the Faculty of Technology, Rs 201 crore for the construction of two new academic blocks of Delhi School of Economics, Rs 161 crore for the construction of a new Girls Hostel in Dhaka, Rs 226 crore for the construction of University campus in Surajmal Vihar and the construction of educational block in Dwarka with Rs. 95 crores is also expected to start along with many new construction works from March to June in the year 2023. He informed that renovation and value addition works at various places will also be completed in this year for a cost of Rs 29.4 crore.

DU VC Professor Yogesh Singh further informed that in the last year the university has signed 18 agreements with foreign universities. The H-index of the university has increased from 230-250. There has been an increase of 9% in research papers in the Scopus index journal, he said.