HC Orders Regularisation of 2 Delhi University Ad-Hoc Profs

The Delhi High Court has directed Delhi University (DU) to regularise two ad-hoc assistant professors, Namita Khare and Mehak Talwar, in a significant ruling that condemns the varsity's prolonged use of temporary appointments as a substitute for regular recruitment.

- OUR CORRESPONDENT

NEW DELHI:

Serving in DU's Department of Germanic and Romance Studies since 2017, the petitioners challenged a 2022 university notification revising guidelines for recruitment and shortlisting of assistant professors.

They contended that the guidelines were arbitrarily applied to exclude long-serving ad-hoc faculty like themselves, despite meeting all eligibility norms under UGC regulations.