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Time of India
31-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
LUTA polls: History prof is new president
Lucknow: The Lucknow University Teachers' Association (LUTA) executive polls 2025 on Saturday witnessed a nail-biting contest for the posts of president and general secretary amid a record turnout. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now A voting percentage of 96% was recorded, as 389 out of 405 registered voters turned up to exercise their franchise. Associate Professor Anitya Gaurav from the Ancient Indian History department won the election for the post of LUTA president bagging 197 votes. It was a close contest with opponent Vineet Kumar Verma from the mathematics and astronomy department bagging 175 votes. The third candidate Ajay Kumar Arya from the geology department got 16 votes. Anitya Gaurav, who served as LUTA general secretary in 2024, thanked all for his victory and said: "From teachers' timely promotion, residence for new teachers on the campus, extension in retirement age from 62 to 65 years, I will give my best to fulfil all the promises made by me. " Prof Ram Milan from the commerce department was elected as the general secretary, winning 196 votes. His opponent, Associate Professor Rajendra Kumar Verma got 171 votes while the other three candidates got below 50 votes: zoology Prof Amita Kanaujia (43), Assistant Professor Bhupesh Kumar (17) and Associate Professor philosophy Mamta Singh (9) votes. Prof Ram Milan said: "I will ensure that I fulfil all my promises, be it efforts to help teachers get leave encashment of 300 days, to end the mandatory biometric attendance rule, ensure timely payment for examination duties done by teachers, promote professors to the post of senior professors, and provide cashless health insurance, among other things." Three teachers were elected for the post of vice president: Associate Professor CR Gautam from the physics department (255 votes), Assistant Professor AAA Jafri from Oriental Studies in Arabic and Persian (202 votes) and Professor Monisha Banerjee from the zoology department (156 votes). Tired of too many ads? go ad free now After a gap of 10 years, a woman candidate was elected as a vice-president, the last being Kiran Lata Dangwal from the education department in 2014. Others elected for different LUTA posts were Ashok Kumar, Karuna Shanker Kanaujia and Akash Asthana as joint secretaries, Dinesh Yadav as treasurer, Sanjay Medhavi as faculty of management representative, Shyamlesh Kumar Tiwari, Gaurav Singh and Annamali Senthil Kumar as arts faculty representatives, Sangeeta Srivastava, Bharat Kuma and Suchit Swaroop as science faculty representatives, Chandrakant Kushwaha as commerce faculty representative, Sanjay Singh Yadav as education faculty representative, Alok Kumar as fine arts faculty representative and Niharika as law faculty representative.
Hindustan Times
31-05-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
LUTA polls: Anitya Gaurav elected LU teachers' body president, Ram Milan gen secy
Anitya Gaurav of Ancient Indian history department was elected as the new president in the Lucknow University Teachers' Association (LUTA) elections held on Saturday, said Prof Dinesh Kumar, the returning officer for the polls. Ram Milan of the commerce department was elected the new LUTA general secretary, he added. Gaurav, who was the LUTA general secretary when the teachers' body polls were last held in 2023, defeated Vineet Kumar Verma by 22 votes. Verma, a mathematics department faculty member, is also a former LUTA president and general secretary. Anitya Gaurav polled 197 votes while Verma managed 175. The new LUTA general secretary Ram Milan got 196 votes, defeating philosophy department's Rajendra Kumar Verma who polled 171 votes. As many as 405 faculty members were voters in the LUTA polls and 389 votes were cast, said returning officer Prof Dinesh Kumar. Meanwhile, CR Gautam, SAA Jafri and Monisha Banerjee won the post of vice president. Akash Asthana, Ashok Kumar and Karuna Shankar Kanaujia will be the new joint secretaries of the LU teachers' body, while Dinesh Yadav is the new treasurer. Sanjay Medhavi defeated Priya to become the representative of management sciences, while Annamali Senthil Kumar, Gaurav Singh and Shyamlesh Kumar Tiwari were elected as arts representatives unopposed. Bharat Kumar, Sangeeta Srivastava and Suchit Swaroop were elected as science representatives unopposed. Others who have won the elections unopposed are Chandrakant Kushwaha, Sanjay Singh Yadav, Alok Kumar and Niharika as commerce, education, fine arts and law representatives respectively. 'I will fulfil the promises I made in my manifesto, including getting promotion committees in the remaining departments, cashless health insurance for dependent children, getting the age limit for cashless health insurance increased to 65 and upto ₹5 lakh, the working conditions of state and central universities to be similar, PhD increments, getting the bar for retirement raised to 65 years. We will begin working as soon as possible with the permission of the election returning officer,' Gaurav said.
