A gaggle of Dalit school members, holding key administrative posts in Bangalore College, wrote to the Vice-Chancellor, threatening to resign alleging caste-based discrimination in appointments to statutory positions and denial of service-related advantages.
In a letter to Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Jayakara Shetty on July 2, the ten professors alleged that regardless of having served in administrative roles for a number of years, alongside their instructing duties, they’re being “sidelined” in appointments to statutory positions and are being given solely “supervisory” roles with out ample authority or recognition.
They described this transfer as a “discriminatory coverage” towards Dalit school members. The professors additionally identified within the letter that the college had earlier “supplied earned go away (EL) encashment or compensation for his or her administrative work, which has now been stopped with out clarification”. They accused the college authorities of ignoring their repeated representations and complaints on these issues.
The professors stated that if their calls for usually are not met “inside per week” from when the letter was written to the V-C, they’ll “think about themselves to have resigned from their administrative positions”.
The signatories are Prof Somashekhar C, Director, Ambedkar Analysis Heart; Prof Vijayakumar H Doddamani, Director, Babu Jagjivan Ram Analysis Heart; Prof Nagesh P C, Director, College students Welfare; Prof Krishnamurthy G, Particular Officer, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes; Prof Sudesh V, Coordinator, PM-USHA; Prof Muralidhar B L, Director, Centre for Distance and On-line Schooling; Prof Shashidhar M, Director, Malviya Academics Coaching Institute; Prof Ramesh, Director, Broadcasting; Dr Suresh R, Director, Equal Alternatives Cell, and Dr Kumbinarasayya S, Director, BOL Heart.
The professors stated that their “collective step isn’t just about particular person grievances however a protest towards systemic exclusion and denial of official advantages”. “Now we have not been given full cost by the college to those statutory posts and we aren’t entitled to ELs, despite the fact that we’re dedicating our time with out getting any rewards. It is a systemic effort to sideline Dalit professors. Regardless of writing to the authorities there was no response,” a professor, who didn’t want to be named, advised The Indian Specific.
Dr Shetty didn’t reply to calls from The Indian Specific.
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In a communication, The Indian Specific has learnt, the Bangalore College stated, “The college acknowledges that school members serving as Coordinators, Administrators, Particular Officers, Chief Wardens, and Chairs of Examine Centres are performing essential administrative duties, just like the duties dealt with by Division Chairpersons. Their roles have been recognised as ‘important companies’, and they’re equally accountable for the functioning of their respective departments and centres.”
The communication stated, “Nonetheless, in sure departments the place the place of Head has not been formally sanctioned as a result of absence of permitted bylaws, the companies of Coordinating Officers are at present being utilised. The college intends to amend the prevailing bylaws to formalise the appointment of Heads for such departments.”
“As soon as these amendments are permitted, the college will take obligatory steps to supply Earned Depart (EL) advantages and different relevant remuneration to Coordinating Officers who’ve been performing these extra duties in departments that at present lack sanctioned Head positions,” it stated.