KU teachers cry foul over ‘termination letters’

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KAVRE, July 14 - Teachers at Kathamandu University (KU) encircled the office of the university registrar at the university office on Friday. They were objecting to the letters handed over by the university to about a dozen university teachers "terminating their job".

The termination letters stated that their contract period with the university is over and also thanked the concerned teachers for their service to the university. It also said the teachers could contact the heads of the concerned department if they want to join the university again.

The irate teachers then encircled the office of the registrar Sitaram Adhikari, detaining him inside his office for over two hours, and let him go only after he assured that the university had no intention to terminate the job of the teachers. Adhikari also that all the teachers would be reinstated.

We allowed Adhikari to come out of the office only after he tore the registration of the letters," said Samir Mani Dixit, General Secretary of University Teachers' Association at KU.

Adhikari told the teachers that the university had handed over the letter to the teachers only to understand the "real intention of the teachers if they were willing to serve the university".

KU teachers have been agitating in support of their eight-point charter of demands that includes professional rights to university teachers and stoppage of 'nepotism and irregularities' in the university. They have been regularly staging sit-ins there for the last three weeks.

Posted on: 2006-07-14 19:57:00 (Server Time)