• Non-payment of dues to 12 colleges causing financial crisis: DUTA

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    Non-payment of dues to 12 colleges causing financial crisis: DUTA
    Digital Desk: The Delhi University Teachers Association(DUTA) on Thursday took the matter of non-payment of balanced dues to Lieutenant Governor Anil Bajal by submitting an online petition. The petition has been supported by 6400 people so far.

    The DUTA has asked the Delhi Government to release the balance due for the payment of salaries to teaching and non-teaching staff at 12 fully centrally financed colleges.

    The DUTA on behalf of the teaching and non-teaching employees and contractual workers of 12 Delhi Government financed DU colleges, informed the press about their financially ill condition and demands the release of dues for the past two to six months.

    According to DUTA, two Colleges of the capital city are in the worst working condition, especially Aditi college and Bhagini Nivedita College.

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    The DU Teachers' Association has come up with an approximate deficit amount for a few colleges. Such as Deen Dayal Upadhyay College staff is owed Rs 33.80 cr deficit, Maharaja Agrasen College has Rs 28.25 cr, Acharya Narendra Dev College has Rs 20.26 cr, and IGIPES has Rs 7.85 cr deficit, and so on.

    Earlier in the first week of January, the DUTA called for a one-day protest and a total shutdown of the university over the matter.