new delhi adhoc teachers form the backbone of teaching in most colleges affiliated to the delhi university if one goes by statistics as per a teacher more than 6000 adhoc teachers are working in the du and its affiliated colleges at presentin many colleges adhoc teachers account for around 70 per cent of the faculty as per du data for 57 colleges over 3500 adhoc teachers are working thereaccording to delhi university 135 adhoc teachers are working at daulatram college 134 at ramjas college 126 at shri venkateshwara college 114 at kalindi college 110 at deshbandhu college 109 at shyama prasad mukherjee college 104 at dayal singh college 96 at shaheed rajguru college 99 at mata sundari college 87 at gargi college 84 at kamla nehru college 84 at janaki devi memorial college 81 at kirorimal college 79 at indraprastha college 75 at shri aurobindo college and 75 at sriram college of commercethe issue of adhoc teachers was raised in the rajya sabha wherein college and yearwise details were sought from the ministry of educationmps vishambhar prasad nishad chaudhary sukhram singh yadav and others asked education minister ramesh pokhriyal about the increasing number of adhoc teachers and the reasons for nonappointment of permanent teachers in the delhi varsityas per du information 3530 posts of teachers are lying vacant in 57 collegesin reply pokhriyal said that the university had informed the government that 56 adhoc teachers were appointed in the academic year 202021 in du departments adding that filling up vacant posts was a continuous processbeing an autonomous body created under the act of parliament the right to fill up the posts lies with the university as per ugc regulations all sanctioned approved posts in the university system are to be filled up on an urgent basis the ugc as well as the ministry are continuously monitoring the processpokhriyal said that the university had advertised posts of 857 permanent faculty including professor associate and assistant professors in july 2019dr hansraj suman of delhi university teachers association told ians that 57 du colleges have 3530 adhoc teachers on its rolls at presentaltogether there are more than 6000 adhoc teachers in the entire du further the du has not given any details of posts on which adhoc teachers have been appointed in the last five years in addition to quota seats he saiddr suman claimed that the appointment process was taken up in some departments or colleges but shut midway he said that he had written to the university to initiate the process of permanent appointmentsfor the last three months the process of making permanent appointments in the departments was going on but it was stopped till the new vice chancellor took charge he alleged