8 DU professors knock on HC’s door for salary - The Times Of India

 8 DU professors knock on HC’s door for salary - The Times Of India

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi:

Eight professors of Delhi University on Tuesday moved Delhi High Court seeking their salaries pending for four months.

The plea, filed through advocates Ashok Agarwal and Kumar Utkarsh on Monday, complained that the petitioners had not been received their salaries since May. “It is respectfully submitted that the impugned inaction on the part of respondent colleges is violative of the fundamental right of the petitioners guaranteed under Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution read with the provisions of Delhi University Act 1922,” the plea said.

It also sought directions to ensure timely payment of salaries in the future and said that the impugned actions were unjust, unfair, arbitrary, discriminatory, unethical, unconstitutional.

Likely to come up for hearing later this week, the plea submitted that apart from the teachers, there were other employees, teaching and nonteaching, who were yet to receive their salaries for May, June, July and August.

Since they are members of Delhi University Teachers Association, the organisation on their behalf has been communicating with Delhi government for release of funds to enable 12 DU colleges, funded by the AAP government, to pay salaries to 1,500 teachers and non-teaching staff, but nothing has been done yet. The teachers had contended that employees of these colleges were undergoing mental agony and harassment, and that there was no justification on the part of the authorities to not pay them their dues on time.

“The impugned actions are bad in law as much as the same is violative of right to life and livelihood,” the plea contended.

The plea listed the 12 colleges as — Acharya Narendra Dev College, Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, Bhagini Nivedita College, DeenDayal Upadhyaya College, Aditi Mahavidyalaya Women’s College, Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education & Sports Sciences, Keshav Mahavidyalaya, Maharaja Agrasen College (DU), Maharshi Valmiki College of Education, Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women and Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies.