The Delhi University law faculty has removed 43 and added 87 new faculty members in its more-than-one-decade overdue recruitment drive.
The hires have been questioned over alleged irregularities and removed teachers have asked for an administrative probe, as first reported by the Times of India.
Facing pressure from the Bar Council of India (BCI) and from several writ petitioners in the Delhi high court, DU conducted interviews in September 2017 to hire permanent faculty 13 years after the university last hired permanent teachers.
With 82 ad-hoc faculty and no permanent faculty members at the time of the 2017 interviews, the law department was being run by ad hoc faculty only for the last several years, one assistant professor (AP) who didn’t make it past the September 2017 screening rounds told us today.
The AP told us that these ad hoc members continue to teach at the university after clearing internal interviews every six months.
After the latest screening rounds, DU law now has 126 permanent teachers out of which 39 are its former ad-hoc faculty who have now been given permanent posts after they cleared the selection rounds, according to TOI.
Allegations made in a letter by the ad hoc faculty members to the vice chancellor were, according to the TOI:
It is customary that the selected names are to be kept in a sealed cover on the same day of the last interview which in this case was September 29. But in this case, the envelope was open for almost four months and was sealed only during the meeting of the selection committee on January 27
We believe that the selection process did not account for the UGC ordained ‘50/30/20' formula where the first 50 points are for academic and research, 30 for domain knowledge, teaching skills and teaching experience, and 20 for interview. If they had followed these then those who are teaching at the faculty for almost a decade should have been considered
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DU had six professors (three of them serving as VCs of NLUJ, HPNLU and TNNLS), 14 Associate and 15 Assistant professors in permanent position before these appointments. This news item shows Legally India in extremely poor light.
For your and your ill-informed readers' informtion who have commented above:
Law Faculty of University of Delhi is arguably India's largest and most premier law faculty which has provided leadership to Indian legal education and profession since 1924! In the times, when national law universities and private law schools are taking the lead in imparting quality legal education to those who are talented and who can also afford studying there, Delhi Law Faculty is the only democratising and equalising force in the legal education offering LLB degree programme at the annual cost of Rs. six thousand per year of tuition fees making it available to any talented graduate who aspires to earn a 3-year LLB degree and a legal career! The faculty whose alumni constitute one-fourth of sitting judges of the Supreme Court and three-fourth of sitting judges in the Delhi High Court has bounced back in a BIG way with these faculty appointments pending for over 13 years.
With over 160 full-time, permanent faculty members now, Law Faculty indeed becomes the largest law faculty in the country! Let's wish that the remaining appointments of 62 Associate Professors and 32 Full professors, already in process, are also done successfully in 2018 and we could see very soon, the emergence of Delhi University Law Faculty becoming the largest law faculty in Asia and one of the largest in the World!
With a sanctioned strength of over 250 Full/Associate/Assistant professors, DU Law Faculty is 3-times bigger than the size of NUS Law Faculty Singapore or Faculty of Law, Hong Kong Univ and only next to the Harvard Law School in the USA which has over 300 teaching staff (if we add adjunct and lecturers).
DU permanent faculty is indeed 5 to 10 times bigger than any existing national law school/university in India. Wish Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India, UGC and DU Administration ensure justice to India's own Harvard of the common people by providing adequate resources, space and funding and a dedicated hostel - a Law Hall in north campus (something we demanded way back in the year 2000 as a law student)!
Two distinguished law professors deserve a big round of applause from everyone in the legal/judicial/academic world who care about legal and higher education in India are - DU VC Professor Yogesh K Tyagi and Dean Professor Ved Kumari. The amount of hard work and commitment they have shown in handling this massive faculty appointments and re-building the faculty of law, will be a part of legal education history in India. Also, for the first time, I am seeing this rush of young law professors leaving one or other national law schools, so many central and state universities and many leading private law schools, to reach the north campus of DU and start a new journey! A new history is indeed in the making at Delhi Faculty for Indian legal education.
Full list of assistant professors:
(As received in a whatsapp message - official list to be checked only in DU/Dean, Law Faculty office):
UR
1. Vandana Mahwal
2. Shewal Satyarthi
3. Anjay Kumar Sharma
4. Harleen Kaur
5. Archana Mishra
6. Santosh Upadhaya
7. Seema Singh
8. Gurpreet Singh
9. Monica Chaudhary
10. Narendra K Bishnoi
11. Vikesh Ram Tripathi
12. Sameeksha Godara
13. Ajay Kumar Sharma
14. Basokhi Nath Dube
15. Bhupesh Rathore
16. Ruchita Chakravarty
17. Pooja Devi
18. Ashutosh Mishra
19. Rohit Manka
20. Deeksha M
21. Namita Vashistha
22. Kshitij Singh
23. Peeyush Kumar
24. Shiva Priyamvada
25. Neelam Tyagi
26. Amarendra K Ajit
27. Parikshit Sirohi
28. Haris Jameel
29. Amit K Sinha
30. Ashish Kumar
31. Arati Aneja
32. Sarvesh
33. Kalpana Sharma
34. Rubine Greval Nagra
35. Vijay K Himanshu
36. Abhishek K Mishra
37. Shilpi Makhija
38. Pushkar Anand
39. Archa Vashishta
40. Kailash Dhinger
41. Anju Sinha
42. Saurabh Rana
43. Nidhi Chauhan
44. Sushmitha P
45. Pramod Tiwari
46. Sneh Yadav
47. Tulasi Das T
48. Belu Gupta Arora
49. Rahul Kumar
50. Shivika Chaudhary
51. Ashutosh Acharya
52. Abhay Pratap Singh
53. Tushti Chopta
54. Isha Wadhwa
55. Anumeha Mishra
56. Sachi Singh
57. Nitesh Saraswat
58. Kaajal Jhamb
59. Preeti Rana
60. Surya Anant Singh
61. Shikha Sharma
62. Sanjeevani Raina
63. Sumiti Ahuja
OBC
1. Naresh Mahipal
2. Sunayana
3. Surinder Mehra
4. Jh Gogoi
5. Neetu
6. Kavita
7. Naseema P K
8. Vijay K Pasricha
9. Parveen
10. Ashwini Siwal
11. Sujit K
12. Kalidas P
13. Shikha Kamb
14. Suman Yadav
15. Shivani Singh
16. Kailash Kumar
17. Shom Nath
18. Alka Bharat
19. Ram Krishna Das
20. Namrata Gupta
21. Shankar Singh Yadav
22. Kislay Soni
23. Anita Yadav -
24. Megh Raj
25. Amrit Nath
26. Mehak Para
27. Sukanya Singha
28. Amarendra Kumar
29. Pankaj Chaudhary
30. Krishna Murari Yadav
31. Eklavya Yadav
32. Chola Yadav
33. Meena Kumari
34. Ashutosh Kr Srivastava
35. Atma Yadav
SC
1. Daya Devi
2. Ajay Bapu S Sonamane
3. Narendra Aggarwal
4. Anil Sain
5. Kirti Singh
6. Ruchi Rani Singh
7. Upendra Nath – BBAU Lucknow/
8. Balaji Nayaka Bh
9. Apanjot Kaur
10. Apeksha Kumari
11. Rakesh Mandal
12. Dinesh P
13. Ravinder Kumar
14. Akash Anand
15. Vikas Kumar
16. Shilpi
17. Swati Solanki
18. Akashdeep Nagal
ST
1. Moa Toshi Ao
2. Irwin L Namte
3. Tawnin Chosta
4. C K Negi Bisht
5. Mizum Nyodu
6. Jai Prakash Meena
7. Mercy K Khoute
8. Nidhi Minz
9. Ezhekial Jarain
PWD
1. Shakti Kumar Aggarwal – DU
(63+35+18+9+1 = 126)
SCAM! SCAM! SCAM
Case should be filed
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