A week after the Delhi High Court directed the Delhi University (DU) to fill, with immediate effect, hundreds of vacant posts in its colleges and departments, the university has announced that it will soon start the long pending process of recruitment. Also, it will be adopting the 4th Amendment of the University Grant Commission (UGC) regulations in the matter. The decision was taken during a meeting of the Executive Council (EC), the highest decision-making body at the varsity, held late on Saturday. It was decided that the advertisements for vacant posts will be issued in January and the screening of applications will begin on February 10, 2017.
A week after the Delhi High Court directed the Delhi University (DU) to fill, with immediate effect, hundreds of vacant posts in its colleges and departments, the university has announced that it will soon start the long pending process of recruitment. Also, it will be adopting the 4th Amendment of the University Grant Commission (UGC) regulations in the matter. The decision was taken during a meeting of the Executive Council (EC), the highest decision-making body at the varsity, held late on Saturday. It was decided that the advertisements for vacant posts will be issued in January and the screening of applications will begin on February 10, 2017.
"The varsity has formed a recruitment and promotion committee, consisting of teachers from different departments, which will facilitate the screening of received applications," a varsity official said. As per the new recruitment policy, 50 per cent weightage will be given to academic record and research performance, 30 per cent to assessment of domain knowledge and teaching skills, and the remaining 20 per cent to interview performance, said an EC member Abha Dev Habib, adding that earlier the recruitment process was based entirely on the interview.
Arguing that the objective criterion for determining the 50 per cent should be evolved by each department and adopted by respective faculties, Habib said: "It should not solely be left on selection committees."
Backing Dev's argument, another faculty member said there should be proper guidelines to access "academic record and research performance" of the applicant to avoid any arbitrariness. Appointments and promotions have been a long-standing demand of both permanent and ad-hoc teachers at the varsity.
At present, 60 per cent of the teaching staff at the varsity comprise guest and ad-hoc faculty members. The varsity has not conducted any interviews to fill the permanent vacancies since 2006, which is why the number of ad-hoc and guest faculty members has increased. Several protests have been staged by the ad-hoc and guest teachers in this regard.
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