Several professors at Delhi University (DU) wrote to Vice Chancellor Yogesh Singh Sunday regarding the salary crisis faced by permanent and ad-hoc teachers as well as other employees.
“Despite the onset of July, the salaries of teachers and employees for June are still awaited,” the letter stated, adding, “In some cases, the dues are more than a month. In many colleges, the payment of salaries with a week delay has become a new normal. This is creating huge hardships.”
Among the signatories to the letter were Seema Das, Member, Executive Council; Rajpal Singh Pawar, Member, Executive Council; and Anand Prakash, Member, Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) Executive.
The letter pointed out that the remunerations of guest teachers have also been pending for more than a month in many colleges. In some cases, guest teachers have not been paid for the last five months.
On June 16, 2023, the professors wrote to the Dean of Colleges raising concern that the salaries of ad-hoc teachers have not been paid in Dyal Singh College and Gargi College for the last three months.
“We have been repeatedly raising the issue of the separation of salary heads of ad-hoc teachers and contractual employees from salary heads 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,” the professors wrote in the latest letter, requesting the VC to intervene and resolve the issue on an urgent basis.
