Delhi University Teacher’s Association condemned the signing of a tripartite agreement between the Delhi University, UGC and the HRD Ministry. The DUTA has called this a step towards privatization. The tripartite MoU required universities to continuously increase the internal financial resource by increasing the fee, shifting to revenue earning commercial courses, engaging with other commercial activities and management of a greater part of the research activities through extramural funding.
The teachers association is of the belief that the tripartite MoU will initiate steps towards the privatization design which forms the core of the Draft National Education Policy. The DUTA has stated that the Draft National Education Policy aims to reduce the number of Higher Education Institutions thereby increasing the size of surviving institutions which will be governed by a privatized board of governors and also have a development office to secure sources of funding which will be other than government funding.
The teachers association has made it clear that it will intensify the struggle against the National Education Policy along with other instruments of privatization including the tripartite MoU. The teachers have been protesting against the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Human Resource Development, the University Grants Commission and the Delhi University from the past year.
The members of the executive council of the Delhi University Rajesh Jha and JL Gupta have also come forward condemning the MoU signed stating that it promotes privatization and contractualisation. They have also written to the University Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Tyagi presenting their concerns about the same.
Recently the University of Delhi was in the news for the protest taken out by the teachers and students against the non-appointment of The Department Head of Hindi at the university in spite of all the appointment procedures being completed.
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