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Delhi varsity promotee professors move H.C.

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI DEC. 14. As many as 24 promotee professors of Delhi University have moved the Delhi High Court challenging the decision of the University to discriminate between promotee professors and the directly appointed ones.

The petition, filed through counsel for the Petitioner, Surat Singh, is listed for hearing by Justice Madan B. Lokur on December 16.

The petitioner professors came to know about the decision when counsel for the University through an affidavit submitted before the High Court in another pending case of this nature said that those professors who were directly appointed stood on a better footing than those who were promoted under the Merit Promotion Scheme.

The petitioners submitted that the decision of the University was against a resolution passed by its Executive Committee on the issue.

The petitioners have reproduced the resolution in the petition. It says: "Considering various aspects of determining inter-seniority, the Executive Committee decided that persons who are appointed to the post of professor and those who are promoted to the post from the rank of reader are to be treated alike in the matter of seniority and cannot be placed in two different compartments merely because two different modes of appointments or two different sets of pay scale are applicable to the grade.''

Justifying the discrimination, the University submitted before the court that in the open selection, recommendations were made on relative/ comparative assessment of candidates whereas under the Merit Promotion Scheme, it was only an individual assessment. Such a person could get monetary benefit from the date of joining or from the date of promotion but he or she could not be made senior on this ground, counsel for the University added.

The petitioners said that the change of the stand by the University was violations of the resolution adopted on December 29, 1999 by the Executive Committee.

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