May 19, 2011: FEDCUTA Resolution on Supporting AMUTA on Demand for Removal of P K Abdul Azis

FEDERATION OF CENTRAL UNIVERSITIES TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION (FEDCUTA)

RESOLUTION

The FEDCUTA in its meeting on May 19, 2011 at Aligarh with the Aligarh Muslim University Teachers’ Association (AMUTA) expressed its solidarity with the cause of the agitating teachers. The meeting, among others, was also attended by Prof Ram Kishore Shastri, President, Allahabad University Teachers’ Association, Dr Vinay Kumar Singh, Secretary, Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA), and Dr Rajesh Updadhyay, Treasurer, DUTA. The FEDCUTA apprised the members of AMUTA on the developments with regard to the Sixth Pay Commission. The FEDCUTA has rejected the evaluation system for selection of faculty recommended by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The proposed evaluation system would subject the teachers to being assessed by babus in the offices of their Universities and reduce them to being point hunters which in the long run would degenerate academics and freedom required for intellectual growth.

The FEDCUTA further apprised the members of AMUTA on its position with regard to NAAC and requested that AMUTA too should reject any kind of rating/assessment by NAAC since the same would be subjecting the faculty to assessment by babus, which is bound to impinge on the autonomy of academic institutions and trigger a rat race for funds between various Universities and even departments within the same University.

The FEDCUTA resolved to support AMUTA in its ongoing struggle at all levels against the corrupt Vice-Chancellor Dr P K Abdul Azis who has been indicted through two inquiries by the Finance Inspection Wing, Government of Kerala, the Comptroller and Auditor General Uttar Pradesh, and in the recent Interim Report submitted by the two judge member Inquiry Committee instituted by the President of India. FEDCUTA was shocked and dismayed by the unwarranted and without procedure abrupt sine die closure of AMU and the role played by the Proctor through his actions and statements which mandate his removal. The FEDCUTA voiced concern at the tinkering with the basic structure of the AMU, an institution of high repute and glorious history, by establishing illegal Centres at Mallapuram and Murshidabad, which can only lead to a change whereby AMU’s distinct character will be lost. The FEDCUTA will very soon be approaching both the President of India and Minister of Human Resource Development in this regard and if needed would launch an all India agitation.

(Dr. Aditya Narayan Misra)   

President, FEDCUTA                         

(Prof. Ram Kishore Shastri)

President, Allahabad University Teachers’ Association

(Dr. Vinay Kumar Singh)

Secretary, Delhi University Teachers’ Association

(Dr. Rajesh Updadhyay)

Treasurer, Delhi University Teachers’ Association

(Prof. Abdul Qaiyum)

President, Aligarh Muslim University Teachers’ Association

(Mr. S Mustafa Zaidi)

Hony. Secretary, Aligarh Muslim University Teachers’ Association