<p class="title">Former union minister of state for human resource development (HRD) Upendra Kushwaha on Wednesday demanded that the government bring a law to reverse the Allahabad High Court judgement, which favoured department-wise roster system for filling up vacancies in universities in 2017.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) pressed its demand for reversal of the court's order either by enacting a law or promulgating an ordinance to restore university-wise roster system for filling up vacant posts of teachers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The university teachers claimed that the department-wise roster system will deny jobs to SC, ST and OBC candidates as the number of vacant posts would drop if a university-wise roster is not maintained for filling up the posts.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The demand grew shriller a day after the Supreme Court declined to intervene in the 2017 Allahabad High Court judgement which had quashed a UGC guideline to treat a central university as a unit for filling up vacant posts of teachers and thereby providing quota for SC, ST and OBC candidates.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The HRD ministry has prepared a draft bill to restore university-wise roster system. The bill awaits Union cabinet's nod.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pressing for introducing the bill in the upcoming session of Parliament, Kushwaha in a letter to HRD minister Prakash Javadekar urged that the bill should provide for 200 point institution-wise roster system for the appointment of teachers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“The bill should cover all teaching posts and higher education institutions, including AIIMS, IITs, IIMs and NITs,” he sought.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kushwaha, Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) chief, who snapped ties with the NDA to join the Opposition camp ahead of Lok Sabha polls, also pitched for making a mandatory provision for including SC, ST, OBC representatives on the board of governors and executive councils of institutions as well as on the selection panels for filling teaching and non-teaching posts.</p>.<p class="CrossHead"><strong>Denying rights</strong></p>.<p class="bodytext">“Department/Subject-wise roster is a way to deny constitutionally mandated percentages for SC/ST/OBC. This change will marginalise teachers and researchers from SC/ST/OBC background who have worked hard to be part of the mainstream,” DUTA president Rajib Ray said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Any change in the roster will see “displacement of thousands of ad hoc teachers” in the Delhi University, who are employed against 200 point roster treating College/University as a unit, he said.</p>
<p class="title">Former union minister of state for human resource development (HRD) Upendra Kushwaha on Wednesday demanded that the government bring a law to reverse the Allahabad High Court judgement, which favoured department-wise roster system for filling up vacancies in universities in 2017.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) pressed its demand for reversal of the court's order either by enacting a law or promulgating an ordinance to restore university-wise roster system for filling up vacant posts of teachers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The university teachers claimed that the department-wise roster system will deny jobs to SC, ST and OBC candidates as the number of vacant posts would drop if a university-wise roster is not maintained for filling up the posts.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The demand grew shriller a day after the Supreme Court declined to intervene in the 2017 Allahabad High Court judgement which had quashed a UGC guideline to treat a central university as a unit for filling up vacant posts of teachers and thereby providing quota for SC, ST and OBC candidates.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The HRD ministry has prepared a draft bill to restore university-wise roster system. The bill awaits Union cabinet's nod.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pressing for introducing the bill in the upcoming session of Parliament, Kushwaha in a letter to HRD minister Prakash Javadekar urged that the bill should provide for 200 point institution-wise roster system for the appointment of teachers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“The bill should cover all teaching posts and higher education institutions, including AIIMS, IITs, IIMs and NITs,” he sought.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kushwaha, Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) chief, who snapped ties with the NDA to join the Opposition camp ahead of Lok Sabha polls, also pitched for making a mandatory provision for including SC, ST, OBC representatives on the board of governors and executive councils of institutions as well as on the selection panels for filling teaching and non-teaching posts.</p>.<p class="CrossHead"><strong>Denying rights</strong></p>.<p class="bodytext">“Department/Subject-wise roster is a way to deny constitutionally mandated percentages for SC/ST/OBC. This change will marginalise teachers and researchers from SC/ST/OBC background who have worked hard to be part of the mainstream,” DUTA president Rajib Ray said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Any change in the roster will see “displacement of thousands of ad hoc teachers” in the Delhi University, who are employed against 200 point roster treating College/University as a unit, he said.</p>