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According to the AUD, the determination to sack the module members followed a “thorough probe and inquiry, initiated by the Directorate of Higher Education, Government of NCT of Delhi. (Express Photo)
Students and teachers from assorted universities demanded the reinstatement of 2 Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) module members who were dismissed earlier this month.
“On November 5, 2024, the Board of Management (BoM) of Dr B R Ambedkar University, Delhi, made the determination to terminate with contiguous effect the employment of Prof (Salil) Mishra and Prof (Asmita) Kabra for their relation successful regularisation of 38 non-teaching unit who had dedicated themselves to the gathering of the assemblage successful its aboriginal years done the ‘one-time absorption policy’ pursuing long-standing demands of AUD teaching and non-teaching unit and students,” the Democratic Teachers’ Initiative (DTI) and All Indian Students’ Association said successful a associated connection Sunday astatine the Delhi Press Club.
The AUD administration, successful a connection to The Indian Express, said the 2 professors were sacked arsenic portion of disciplinary enactment “due to their engagement successful irregularities related to the one-time regularisation/absorption argumentation for non-teaching staff”.
According to the AUD, the determination to sack the module members followed a “thorough probe and inquiry, initiated by the Directorate of Higher Education, Government of NCT of Delhi, which revealed respective irregularities, including unauthorised appointments”.
DTI convener Uma Gupta said astatine the property league Sunday, “We’ve travel unneurotic successful solidarity with our colleagues of large integrity and principles, Salil and Asmita, who person been punished for daring to talk up successful favour of an equitable nationalist education.”
Jawaharlal Nehru University module subordinate Professor Atul Sood emphasised that teachers crossed universities person expressed solidarity arsenic the dismissal is an “attack connected all”. “The onslaught aims to guarantee each module stay engaged successful ineligible battles against arbitrary decisions and that a nationalist dialog connected the thought of higher acquisition and the thought of a federation is not allowed to happen,” helium said.
JNUSU President Dhananjay, too, expressed solidarity.
On Thursday, the enforcement committee of the Indian History Congress said it has taken enactment of the “action of the Board of Management of Ambedkar University, Delhi, successful terminating services of Professor Salil Mishra, a chap historian, and Asmita Kabra, not for immoderate idiosyncratic misconduct, but for implementing a assemblage decision, which present has been reserved station facto by the contiguous medication of the university”.
“The Executive Committee, aft scrutinising indispensable facts of the case, powerfully feels that nary idiosyncratic should endure for administrative enactment taken, successful each sincerity, and without immoderate payment for themselves,” it stated, calling for the reinstatement of the 2 professors.
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