Gupta asks Centre to make 4500 contractual DU teachers regular

Senior Delhi BJP leader Vijender Gupta has demanded the Centre to bring in a special ordinance to regularise 4,500 ad-hoc assistant professors teaching at the Delhi University and colleges affiliated to it.
Gupta, who is the Leader of House in Delhi Assembly, said that the government should grant one time exemption to these teachers as they hold the required qualifications besides having experience of several years.
"All these teachers fulfil the required recruitment rules including clearance of NET and are holding PhD and have acquired rich teaching experience. It was done earlier between 1977 and 2003 when ad-hoc teachers in DU were regularised between 1977 and 2003 by bringing special Ordinance," he said.

Nearly 45 percent of the 10,000 assistant professors i.E. 4500 are teaching at DU and its colleges for many years as ad-hoc teachers. They were appointed following the due procedure and their regularisation will only benefit the university and colleges, he asserted.
"They remain in a state of animated suspension and have to face renewal of six-monthly contract from time to time," he claimed.