Deepak Pental responds by slamming 'activists' in his two-page letter to the Academic Council
Deepak Pental responds by slamming 'activists' in his two-page letter to the Academic Council
They say a scuffle can only mar the situation but can never make it.
A day after the ongoing protest by the teachers of Delhi University against the implementation of semester system took an ugly turn on Sunday morning, the vice-chancellor, Deepak Pental has sent a letter to the Academic Council (AC) members, slamming the incident and asking them to not use coercive methods in future.
In the letter, the V-C has alleged that instead of cooperating with the system, the colleagues working on the revision of courses have been called 'chamchas' and all kind of inappropriate language has been used, which is not fit enough to put up on a piece of paper.
"I had a taste of such intimidating tactics when I went to address parents and prospective students on an open day meeting on Sunday. Even though I noticed that some of the colleagues had come with the intention of a dialogue, the more aggressive ones hijacked the moment," said Pental in his letter.
The vice-chancellor also invited the protestors for talks on Monday, but clearly stated that it can only happen once the agitation is over. The members of the Academic Council are on a sit-in at the V-C office since May 13. They are against the unilateral imposition of semester-based syllabus in 12 undergraduate courses of the science department.
The sit-in started after a special meeting of the AC on Thursday approved the revised syllabus of the courses to be implemented from session 2010-2011.
Aditya Narayan Mishra, DUTA president, said, "He has been promising in public that he will meet all the agitating teachers. However, he has never turned up. Now he has again promised to meet us, but I doubt it will happen. We are demanding that the decision of implementing semester system should be reviewed and not be imposed in a hurry or without any discussion."
In protest of the attack on teachers, DUTA also stopped the work at four evaluation centers - Hansraj College, Kirorimal College, SGTB Khalsa College and Miranda House of Delhi University.
"Your 'Halla Bol' tactics and disturbing the committee of courses and the faculty meetings is illegal," the letter further said.
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