Letter to the DUTA President, 31 July 2024

Dear DUTA President,

It is really shocking that since the DUTA Elections concluded on 27.9.2023 more than 10 months back, this is the first time that the DUTA Executive is meeting to discuss long overdue pressing issues that the University community is plagued with. The only other meeting held on 12.02.2024 was solely on the issue of funding of 12 Delhi Government maintained colleges. This lackadaisical attitude of yours towards the DUTA has led to a serious erosion of its democratic functioning whereby the Executive is denied the opportunity to meet regularly. The 11 agenda items that you have listed for today’s meeting are itself revealing how the DUTA under your leadership has been reduced to a mere spectator while the administration has been given a free rein and the Government’s policies adversely affecting education and teachers have gone unchallenged. Further, by not identifying the agency to which each of these 11 issues /demands must be addressed is a deliberate attempt to create confusion and give a clean chit to the Government/ University administration.