Teachers' Day: DU teachers stage protest for not paying salaries for past 5 months, faced detention

Delhi University teachers protested work without salary and faced detention on Saturday, which ironically was celebrated as Teacher's Day. The staff working from home for several colleges has not received the salary of the past five months. The teachers raised their voices against this at North Campus and faced detention. These colleges get funds from Delhi Government.

"We are staging a protest against the Delhi Government because we are facing a financial crunch in this difficult time of Coronavirus, we cannot even pay the fees of our children, " said the teachers who came to participate in the



protest.

"We cannot even arrange for daily need things. We have been constantly requesting the government to pay our wages," said Delhi University teachers, Dr. Sangeet Sharma and Dr. Chaman Singh.

The protest was also joined by the Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) as well as the Teachers' Union. However, all of them were arrested by the police.

Delhi University Executive Council, Rajesh Jha, says, "How shameful it is that the Delhi Government has not paid the wages on time and when teachers are raising their voice for their salaries, they are facing detention."