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Promotee professors made party to petition

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI DEC. 19. The Delhi High Court has allowed an application by 24 promotee professors of Delhi University to include them as a party in an earlier petition in which a decision by the university to discriminate between promotee professors and directly appointed ones has been challenged.

Justice Madan B. Lokur asked the Registry to include the 24 professors as a party in the petition of Suman Bala Sharma, another professor of the university, who has challenged the decision to keep the two categories of professor on two different scales.

The similar plea of Ms. Sharma and the 24 professors would be taken up jointly for hearing on January 23. Justice Lokur issued notices to the Vice-Chancellor of the university and others to file replies to their plea by the next date of hearing.

In fact, the professor petitioners moved the court against the decision when they came to know that the university had made its decision known to the court during the hearing of the earlier petition.

The University through an affidavit submitted in the earlier petition that those professors who were directly appointed stood on a better footing than those who were promoted under the Merit Promotion Scheme.

Counsel for the petitioner professors, Surat Singh, submitted that the decision of the university was against a resolution passed by its Executive Committee on the issue.

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 violative of the resolution adopted on December 29, 1999 by the Executive Committee.

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