DTF Newsletter, October 2024

October 31, 2024December 9, 2024 dtf Newsletters / Leaflets Delhi University, Education, IDP, India, News, Teaching, Universities

A few of the important submissions made in the Zero Hour and a summary of the dissent note on IDP in the AC by the DTF.

Amidst protest the University has adopted “Strategic Plan (2022-2047)”. It is ironic for a university to talk about Strategic Plan up to 2047 when it has failed to even frame coursework for the 7th and 8th semesters of the UGCF 2022. This has affected close to 80,000 students who took admission in 2022. Like lab rats, they have been pushed into an unseen alley. Unfortunately, this batch will also become victims of the new 1-year PG courses. As of today, the Departments are clueless about the framework of these 1-year PG courses. The University has also failed to develop any strategic plan to salvage from the deep crisis the 12 DU Colleges that are 100% funded by Delhi Government.

As our next leaflet, we bring to you a few of the important submissions made in the Zero Hour and a summary of the dissent note on IDP in the AC by the DTF.

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DTF Letter to the DUTA President, 31 July 2024

August 3, 2024December 22, 2024 dtf Newsletters / Leaflets

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.

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