Univ teachers’ association expels prez for ‘anti-union activities’

  • | Monday | 16th July, 2018

Coimbatore: The Association of University Teachers (AUT) on Sunday ratified its decision to remove its president J Gandhiraj from the post and also from his primary membership, citing ‘anti-association activities’. The association, meanwhile, thanked the state for implementing the seventh UGC scales of pay for college and university teachers and urged the government to release the benefits immediately.It also expressed its gratitude to the state governmrnt for declaring 41 constituent colleges as government colleges. Shettu said the decision would bring in problems in grants for educational institutions.AUT said any attempt to replace UGC with a bureaucratic setup was a retrograde move. “As the association’s president has been expelled, we have appointed an election officer, who would schedule the election to choose a new president,” he said.The association also urged the Centre not to replace the existing University Grants Commission (UGC) with the newly-proposed Higher Education Commission of India. The move came at its general council meeting held in the city.A release from AUT said Gandhiraj was expelled for his ‘unilateral decision’ to support the ‘illegal cause’ of its Trichy zone secretary A Pasupathy, who was charged with sexual harassment of a fellow teacher.

Coimbatore: The Association of University Teachers (AUT) on Sunday ratified its decision to remove its president J Gandhiraj from the post and also from his primary membership, citing ‘anti-association activities’. The move came at its general council meeting held in the city.A release from AUT said Gandhiraj was expelled for his ‘unilateral decision’ to support the ‘illegal cause’ of its Trichy zone secretary A Pasupathy, who was charged with sexual harassment of a fellow teacher. The decision to expel him was first taken at the AUT’s central executive committee meeting held on July 1, the release said.N Shettu, general secretary of AUT, told TOI that Pasupathy was removed from his post and the primary membership of the association on May 2, after sexual harassment charges against him were proved. “As the association’s president has been expelled, we have appointed an election officer, who would schedule the election to choose a new president,” he said.The association also urged the Centre not to replace the existing University Grants Commission (UGC) with the newly-proposed Higher Education Commission of India. Shettu said the decision would bring in problems in grants for educational institutions.AUT said any attempt to replace UGC with a bureaucratic setup was a retrograde move. The association, meanwhile, thanked the state for implementing the seventh UGC scales of pay for college and university teachers and urged the government to release the benefits immediately.It also expressed its gratitude to the state governmrnt for declaring 41 constituent colleges as government colleges.

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