Friday, October 30, 2009

MANUUTA CHARTER OF DEMANDS 2009

To
The Registrar
Maulana Azad National Urdu University
Hyderabad-32

Sir,

Sub: Request for early implementation of long standing demands of Teaching Community-Reg.

The Executive Committee of the Maulana Azad National Urdu University Teachers Association met on 8.10.2009 and discussed the problems of the teaching community in detail and formulated the following charter of demands. The Association demands the University authorities to solve these pressing problems of the teaching community earnestly.

1. The University should adopt five days week as adopted by the central government offices and many central universities.
2. The University should fix the salaries of the teaching community as per the revised pay scales according to the Sixth Pay Commission and the salary arrears should be released immediately. The 60 percent salary due to the employees should also be released with immediate effect.
3. The services of the teaching staff appointed on tenure basis should be made permanent.
4. The teaching staff of DDE, CSSEIP and CPDUMT should be given holidays along with other teaching staff and orders should be issued in this regard well in advance of the winter holidays scheduled from 1st January 2010.
5. Career Advance Scheme (CAS) should be implemented with immediate effect.
6. Merger of past service from the state under old pension scheme.
7. The teaching community is suffering from lack of basic facilities. The University should immediately sanction Personal Computers with printers and telephone to all Assistant Professors who have not got these facilities so far.
8. All the departments, including those in the Regional Centres should be provided with basic infrastructure such as the Xerox, Fax machines and telephone for the smooth functioning. Required supporting staff like the clerks, computer operators, translators and attenders should be appointed on permanent basis in each department.
9. The department of Social Work should be strengthened by appointing permanent faculty and necessary infrastructure should be provided.
10. The University should fill up all the vacant posts both teaching and non teaching immediately so that the University works in a full fledge manner.
11. The University should play the role of facilitator in promoting the research activity. Full financial assistance should be provided for the teachers who are invited or whose abstracts are accepted by the host institutions for paper presentation within and outside the country.
12. The teachers with MPhil and PhDs should be allowed to guide research scholar for MPhil and PhD respectively.
13. The University should start Publication Division of its own to publish standard text books in Urdu and also to translate World Classics into Urdu language.
14. Central Government Health Schemes (CGHS) should be implemented immediately with the facility of cash less admission into hospitals for treatment. The University should identify hospitals in all the places wherever the MANUU staff is working.
15. A qualified and experienced lady doctor and a paediatrician should be appointed in the campus health centre immediately to take care of health problems of female students, women and children in the campus.
16. The Ambulance service should be started immediately for attending the emergency cases and the health centre should be strengthened by procuring necessary medicine and machinery.
17. The inordinate delay in clearing LTC files and bills is causing hardship to the staff. It should be cleared within a stipulated time frame.
18. The teaching community should be adequately represented in all the committees concerning academic and research activities. The teaching faculty should be involved in the academic activities of conducting examinations, supervision and as observers.
19. The University EC meetings should be more transparent and the MANUUTA President and General Secretary should be made the members of EC.
20. The University Library should procure more international journals and magazines and internet facility should be provided in the Library.
21. The Housing Society which has become defunct should immediately be activated and all the teaching and non teaching staff should me made members and efforts should be made to procure land from the government for the society.
22. The Campus Amenities Committee should be established with the representatives from the teaching and non teaching staff and the facilities like canteen, medical shop and stores should be established.
23. The University bus shuttle service frequency should be increased. The University should take up the issue with the officials of RTC for increasing the frequency of buses to the campus.
24. Place should be provided for Faculty Club for the recreation of the staff.
25. A decent office space with basic infrastructure should be provided for MANUUTA.

We request you to take necessary steps for providing these basic requirements which are necessary for improving the performance of the staff and smooth functioning of the University. We hope the university will resolve these issues earnestly.

Dr. Abdul Quayum Dr. Syed Najiullah
President General Secretary
Copy: To the Hon’ble Vice Chancellor