TODAYS PAPER » NATIONAL » NEW DELHI NEW DELHI, September 14, 2014 High Court gives go-ahead to DU on teachers’ recruitment The Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi University to go ahead with the recruitment of assistant professors while ensuring compliance with the Union Governments reservation policy and the University Grants Commission’s guidelines. The direction was given during the hearing of a writ petition moved by the SC/ST/OBC Teachers’ Forum. A Division Bench comprising Justice B. D. Ahmed and Justice Siddharth Mridul gave the direction on Tuesday when the Delhi University counsel sought the court’s permission for initiating the recruitment process. The court was told that a large number of teacher posts were lying vacant and this was adversely affecting the quality of education. The Bench observed that it had never stayed the appointment of teachers at the university and had no objection to the recruitment process being started. The court clarified that if the reservation norms were not complied with or the issues raised by the petitioner were not addressed, the appointment process would come under judicial scrutiny. The SC/ST/OBC Teachers’ Forum contended that the Delhi University’s Executive Council had distorted the guidelines of the Department of Personnel and Training that had notified a roster-based reservation policy providing quota on the basis of total vacancies available at the university. In a resolution adopted last year, the executive council of the university had decided to implement reservation for vacancies arising in the particular departments, thus significantly reducing the number of seats available for the reserved categories. The university took the stand in the court that it was not bound by the DoPT guidelines. The High Court’s direction on Tuesday has paved the way for recruitment of 4,500 assistant professors, including 1,700 under the SC/ST category and 800 under the OBC category. The Delhi University had in July this year withdrawn its earlier affidavit filed in the High Court, in which it had claimed that since it was an autonomous body, it was not obliged to follow the decisions of the Centre and the UGC on teachers’ appointment. The UGC had taken exception to the affidavit as it had stated that the university fell within the definition of ‘State’ under Article 12 of the Constitution and could have its own policy on the quota in appointments. “If reservation norms were not complied with or the issues raised by the petitioner were not addressed, the appointment process would come under judicial scrutiny”
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 10:30:48 +0000
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