new delhi even as another assistant professor resigned from the university college of medical science ucms earlier this month another faceoff between the hrd ministry and delhi university administration seems to be brewing sources said the university has decided to ignore the directives on transfer of ucms to delhi government during the past three years the hrd ministry has made repeated attempts to resolve the issue of duality and numerous meetings have been held in which even du vicechancellor dinesh singh had participated the ministry finally wrote a letter on october 1 requesting singh to complete the formalities of transfer of ucms to delhi government within a month however status quo exists even after 80 days at the instigation of a small section of faculty and staff the vc has adopted an obstructionist position which goes contrary to the decision of the hc the vc has ignored the ministrys directive where it is clearly written that the decision of the cabinet has to be implemented said a ucms faculty member in favour of the transfer more than two months have passed but nothing has happened the authorities said that the matter will be taken up in academic and executive councils initially it was said that that ec will take up the matter in the first week of december but no urgency has been seen if they really wished to honour the ministrys decision the vc could have arranged an ec meeting the same day said another teacher from ucms toi had earlier reported faculty leaving ucms and the question was raised in parliament smriti irani told parliament that nobody has cited lack of paypromotion as reason for resignation however the faculty member who recently resigned stated lack of promotionpay and grade pay of rs 6000 as the reason a copy of the document is with toi he even sent a copy of the letter to the principal and ministry of health and family welfare dinesh singh could not be reached for his comments