NEW DELHI: Over 50 English teachers from colleges across Delhi University have signed a letter to the head of the department of English, Sumanyu Satpathy, expressing their "solidarity with the MA English students' demand for a wider discussion and dialogue regarding their complaint on pedagogical matters to the head of the department of English."
Over 200 students of the MA English programme had complained to Satpathy in September against three newly-recruited teachers. In their letter, they had complained about the standard of their lectures and the offensive statements that they allegedly made. Another group-led largely by students of history-had countered this saying it was an elaborate campaign against teachers recruited through reservation.
Early in October, the protesting students of the English department had asked the HoD to convene a general body meeting of students and teachers but had been refused. The English teachers' group-Joint Action Body-which came together during the struggle against semester system, believes the allegations of poor-quality lectures and counter allegations of caste bias in the department should be addressed openly on a democratic platform. "Any concerns about prejudice that have arisen in this context from various sides, demanding...fair, sensitive and serious attention, need to be made, responded to and discussed in a forum that enables all concerned to engage in a worthwhile, face-to-face debate... and come up with legitimate ways of redressal," says the letter, "a general body meeting of the MA teachers and students called by the HoD of English will provide such a forum for dialogue and will offer the appropriate space to discuss, and ratify the composition of the proposed student-faculty committee."
"A general body meeting will help for another reason as well," continues the letter, "It will reaffirm a transparent and democratic convention in the university at a time when the arbitrary functioning of the Delhi University administration has wrought immense confusion and despair. The students' complaints in particular are not disconnected from this larger breakdown of democratic functioning as evidenced by the dubious changes to ordinances concerning faculty selection procedures."
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