NEW DELHI: Delhi University has become the exhibition ground showcasing all forms of non-disruptive mode of protests, designed not to hamper any classroom activities. Be it lighting of 400 candles in front of the vice chancellor's office in protest against not filing up of the 4,000 permanent teaching posts over nearly three years last week or 'barefoot march' on Thursday to protest against the MHRD's reforms in higher education, the street plays in front of the venue of the organized academic congress near Arts Faculty to protest against the proposed academic changes in the university in September or conducting classes in the Mughal Garden to protest the implementation of the semester system at undergraduate level in 2011 mode of protest by teachers are getting innovative.
With the semester schedule hardly leaving any extra hours, the threats of salary cut in case of strikes and with the Delhi High Court taking strong views on disruption of classes due to strikes, gone are those days when strikes by teachers simply mean disruption of teaching. As exemplified by the ongoing relay hunger strike, which is completing its 11 thday on Thursday, against the DU administration, there has been no disruption of classroom activities. The teachers are on relay hunger strike to highlight the alleged usurping of all academic and executive decision-making powers by the vice chancellor and his brazen violations of statutory processes, as well as his unilateral and arbitrary imposition of changes in the structure of teaching-learning and evaluation in the university.
"Strike has been the last resort of protest and in the present day cannot be justified. And it should not be mode of protest in universities. There should be constant dialogue and the environment should not be hostile. But it is unfortunate that the VC is not meeting DUTA and to say the teachers' body illegal in not right. The teachers on the other hand have responded responsibly by taking all the classes and doing their duties despite grievances and resorting to protests by not disrupting the academic atmosphere," said Abhay Kumar a teacher with the Shri Ram College of Commerce.
While the teachers have extended the indefinite hunger strike beyond the Dussehra and festive days, the strike has been accompanied by demonstrations, which ranged from lighting candle lights to singing songs and walking barefoot and street plays. As a symbolic mode, while they lit 400 candles to highlight 4,000 teachers' vacancies in the university, on Thursday they walked barefoot in the North Campus stating that aggressive promotion of private interests and FDI in higher education betrays the tall claims the Government has been making on the Right to Education.
And the principals who on whom lies the responsibility of smooth conduct of college affairs are welcoming the new mode of protests. "It is a matured form of protest. Students anyways are not responsible for whatever is happening and therefore lives should be affected. And the teachers, through these protest, are putting across their messages to the administration," said principal of Gargi College, Meera Ramachandran.
"It is a good development. At least students are not suffering, as their academic activities are not getting disrupted. Protest per say is their (teachers) right, though by this I am not commenting on the merit of the issues they are protesting for, said principal of Dayal Singh College (evening), Deepak Malhotra.
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