JNU teachers to go on 24-hour hunger strike tomorrow over delay in CAS promotions

NEW DELHI: The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers Association (JNUTA) has called for a 24-hour hunger strike on March 27 against the JNU administration for its “unresponsive attitude” and long delay in Career Advancement Scheme (CAS) promotions.

Recently, the JNU teachers held a protest against the Dean of the School of Social Sciences (SSS) for denying CAS promotions to three faculty members.

A list of long pending CAS promotions was sent to the JNU vice-chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit by the JNUTA on March 7. Following this, “On March 10, 2025 we, however, came to know that the VC had failed to keep her promise made to

the JNUTA delegation to look into the issue of rejection recommendations emanating from selection committees deliberately designed to achieve that end,” it said.

The teachers again wrote to the JNU VC on March 20 “clearly stating” that any delay in resolution of the issues will “adversely affect the functioning of university” and “will force JNUTA to intensify its action programme.

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It also criticised the JNU administration for “the arbitrary rejections driven by personal vendetta and victimization achieved through blatant rigging of the selection process, selective delay and discrimination in CAS promotions, and illegal extension of probation of newly appointed faculty colleagues”.

Despite raising the issue of delay in CAS promotions by several members of the Rajya Sabha, the vice-chancellor has remained “unresponsive” to the repeated request made by the JNUTA for immediate action.

Moushumi Basu, president of JNUTA, and Syed Akhtar Huasin, secretary have called upon the JNU faculty and the university to join the call for a “24 hours Hunger Strike in front of SSS - 2 on Thursday 27 March 2025, 11 am onwards”.