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Court notice to Delhi University on teachers' attendance
Wednesday August 29, 2012 05:29:11 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued
notice to the Delhi University and the University Grants
Commission (UGC) on a plea for introducing biometric attendance
system for teachers to ensure punctuality.
A division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice
Rajiv Sahai Endlaw sought response from the university and the UGC
by Sep 19, the next date of hearing.
The public interest litigation (PIL), filed by an organisation
called Indian Council of Legal Aid and Advice, said that the
biometric system to register the attendance of lecturers and other
teaching staff should be introduced.
It said that the system should be introduced to ensure that a
teacher "adheres to the teaching hours and days prescribed by the
UGC and the university rules".
Advocate R.K. Saini, appearing for the petitioner, said that the
UGC in its regulations in 2010 provided that "universities and
colleges must adopt at least 180 working days, that means there
should be minimum of 30 weeks" of actual teaching.
He submitted that as per the UGC norms, the workload of teachers
should not be less than 40 hours a week for 180 teaching days,
apart from being available for at least five hours daily in the
college.
"The working hours actually being put in by a lecturer/assistant
professor/teacher in Delhi University daily are just about three
and half hours," the petition said.
The plea said it seemed that the university was not implementing
the biometric system under pressure from teacher unions.
In December 2009, the university unsuccessfully tried to introduce
the biometric system in colleges.
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