The Haryana University teachers today called off their fifteen-day-old strike following an assurance from Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to give due benefits to teachers as per the UGC recommendations.
The decision to call off the strike was taken at a meeting of the coordination committee of Haryana universities (ad hoc), representing teachers’ associations of Kurukshetra University, MDU, Rohtak, Guru Jambheshwar University, Hisar, Ch Devi Lal University, Sirsa, CCSHAU, Hisar, and DBCR University of Science and Technology, Murthal, with Hooda at his residence in New Delhi.
A number of issues like re-designation of readers/lecturers (selection grade) as associate professors, upgrade of 10 per cent posts of professors to higher AGP (academic grade pay) of Rs 12,000, minimum entry level pay for readers and professors directly recruited after January 1, 2006, incentives for PhD/MTech/MPhil, special allowance of Rs 5,000 per month for the Vice-Chancellors were discussed during the meeting in a cordial atmosphere and Hooda assured that all due benefits as per the UGC recommendations would be given to them, convener of the coordination committee Prof NS Kaushal said.
He further mentioned that all other pending issues, including raising the age of superannuation, would be decided by the committee already constituted for the purpose after due consultation with representatives from different teachers’ associations.
The committee unanimously resolved that the loss of teaching due to agitation would be compensated by taking extra classes and academic activities would be resumed immediately.
ROHTAK: The two-week-old strike by the teachers of Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) was called off on Wednesday after the remaining section of the teachers announced to suspend their agitation and return to work immediately.
The move came after a meeting of a teachers’ delegation with the Chief Minister, who has assured of a positive action regarding their demands of proper revision in the pay scales as per the provisions of the MHRD notification.
The move also came after the story, which was carried out by The Tribune on Wednesday, in which the strike had been described as illegal and the Vice-Chancellor of the varsity had warned to initiate action against those teachers who fail to return to work soon.
Earlier, a meeting of agitating teachers was held on Wednesday morning on the campus to discuss the present scenario and the assurance given by the Chief Minister and his OSD regarding their demands.
According to Professor Rajinder Chaudhary, convener of the Action Committee of the MDUTA, the OSD responded to the delegation on a positive note and said the government would seriously look into these aspects and on receiving clarifications from the MHRD/UGC/Election Commission, wherever appropriate, or otherwise, would take a suitable remedial action to provide relief to teachers.
He said the teachers later endorsed the common decision of all university teachers’ associations of Haryana to suspend the agitation. It was also decided that the seven-member action committee would continue to liaise with other teachers’ associations of universities of Haryana over pending issues. He claimed that the teachers had also decided to start the process of conducting annual MDUTA elections at the earliest since the previous union had already completed its term.
In another development, secretary, MDUTA, Dr Subhash Sharma and members of the executive committee of MDUTA, Dr Nikhilesh Kumar and Dr Rajendra Sharma, resigned from the EC of the MDUTA alleging that they were misled in the meeting held on September 8 about the developments regarding the agitation.
HISAR: The striking teachers of the Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology on Wednesday called off their 15-day-old strike saying that it has received a “concrete assurance” from the Chief Minister regarding the implementation of new scales.
GJUTA president Rajesh Lohchab said the teachers would take extra classes during the winter break to compensate for students’ studies.
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