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Friday, Feb 17, 2006

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DUTA extends support to striking teachers of Shraddhanand College

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Even as the Executive of the Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) extended its support to the agitating teachers of Swami Shraddhanand College on Thursday, the striking teachers accused the university of causing the stalemate.

In its sixth day now, the strike has been called by teachers to protest against the constitution of an enquiry committee by the Governing Body against the head of the Economics Department, T.P.Sinha, who has been charged with bungling the internal assessment marks of two students.

Terming the enquiry illegal, the teachers have been demanding that the committee be scrapped. A team of teachers from the college had met the Dean of Colleges on Wednesday.

"The Dean had assured us that we need not go on strike on Thursday as the University would issue a letter stating that the matter came under its purview and so the decision of the Governing Body to constitute the committee would stand quashed. Till three days ago the matter may have rested with the Governing Body, but we believe the University is now responsible for causing this stalemate by going back on its words,'' said Suraj Yadav, the president of the College Staff Association.

But with nearly a week of no classes, students say they have been left in the lurch before the annual examinations. While the teachers have decided to continue with their agitation till the committee is scrapped, students are threatening to go on a strike of their own if classes are not resumed soon and the guilty not punished.

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