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UGC notification raises workload: DU lecturers extend boycott
DU lecturers are boycotting the analysis method for undergrad exams over the last four days, in protest against the UGC latest gazette notification, have set to continue the boycott until a month. The lecturers additionally vulnerable to boycott the university’s admission system if the notification isn't withdrawn. Sources same the continued boycott might not solely delay results, however, may adversely have an effect on the admission method, that begins from month one.
As per the gazette notification, work for assistant professors has been accumulated from sixteen hours of “direct teaching” per week to eighteen hours, and another six of tutorials, conveyance the whole up to twenty-four hours. Similarly, the work hours of associate professors are accumulated from fourteen hours to twenty-two hours. The job it unacceptable, lecturers same the changes won't solely impact the standard of teaching, however, will lead to an inclined student-teacher quantitative relation. The changes would additionally drastically increase work of permanent workers, they claimed. Rajesh Jha, an academic at Rajdhani school, said, “We aren’t happy boycotting analysis. however, we tend to don’t have an alternative choice. The notification has fateful ramifications not only for DU, except for the country’s pedagogy system. absolutely the boycott by the teaching community ought to tell the govt. that this can be not acceptable”. He added, “It was set at the meeting that the boycott can continue until a June 2. The chief committee can meet once more on one to review matters and counsel ways that to strengthen the struggle.” lecturers have additionally planned to stage a “people’s march to Parliament” on eight thirty. workers associations of various faculties additionally passed resolutions rejecting the notification.
