DU teachers write to Vice-Chancellor on widespread salary, pension crises; request urgent intervention

NEW DELHI: The University of Delhi (DU) teachers has written to the Vice-Chancellor on the widespread salary crisis faced by the permanent teachers and employees of the university, ad-hoc teachers and guest teachers and pension crises in some colleges. The teachers have also requested urgent intervention from the Vice-Chancellor.

Saying that in many colleges, the payment of salaries with a week’s delay has become the new normal and further explaining the situation, the teachers in an email said: “Despite the onset of July, the salaries of teachers and employees for June are still awaited..This is creating huge hardships in the times of EMI and ECS.”

The DU teachers also wrote to the Dean of Colleges earlier in June raising the concern that the salaries of the ad-hoc teachers have not been paid in Dayal Singh College and Gargi College for the last three months.

“We have been repeatedly raising the issue of the separation of the salary head of ad-hoc teachers and contractual employees from the salary head of permanent ones and bringing them together with the pension head, which would lead to such a salary and pension crisis. But this has not been addressed yet and our colleagues are suffering,” it added.

The remunerations of the guest teachers, they added, have also been pending for more than a month in many colleges. In some cases, the guest teachers have not been paid for the last 5 months, they added.

It is also alleged that the retired teachers and employees have not received their pensions for more than a month in many colleges.

In some cases, they added, only partial payment of the monthly pension was released.

“Sir, these senior colleagues gave their sweat and blood in the glorious journey of our university and colleges and many of them are solely dependent on their pensions,” the letter to the Vice-Chancellor read.

It further added: “Any delay is not in accordance with their dignity which they have earned.”

*Prof Yogesh Singh*
Vice Chancellor
University of Delhi
Delhi 110007

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