NOTES 65 assured the DUTA, on the basis of legal advice from the Law Ministry, that because of some legal complications these Statues would stand automatically repealed. Thus, the College Councils were scrapped. With this started DUTA's movement for a democratic structure of Delhi University, for university take-over of college abolishing the Private trusts and for statutory security of teachers5 services. This will, obviously, be a more difficult struggle and a struggle of a higher stage. Preparations are afoot, and discussions within the University are likely to start soon. The 'College Council agitation9 has had its many critics also. Criticism has come from two extremely opposite quarters : one from those who still continue to religiously stick to the notion of 'respectability5 of teachers and the other from those who think that teachers' movement should not have anything to do with economic demands. The former variety of critics need not be taken as seriously as the latter because it includes not only the teachers but also some political leaders who claim to belong to the so-called left. It is a matter of common knowledge that during the last 25 years educational structure and content (educational system) have mainly served the ruling elite in their attempt to develop capitalism. And this goes to the credit of the educational policy pursued by the Government. Needless to say that this has contributed a great deal to the crisis of higher eduction in India. Obviously it is for the teachers, who are mindful of the academic issues, who consider education to be their business, to shun bourgeois 'respectability* (denied to a large majority of teachers in the heirarchical educational structure) and resort to organised struggle, (of which there can be various forms) without which no significant change can be ensured. Coming to those who believe that 'College Council agitation' primarily revolved around economic issues, parity between university and college teachers' salaries and privileges, DUTA has repeatedly made its position clear on this question. It considers service conditions of teachers important not only because it is important in itself but also because the same has bearing upon the quality of education. Had it not been so, DUTA would have abandoned its demand of scrapping the College Councils in the face of the assurance given by the Education Minister that the salaries and privileges of college teachers would remain unaltered. Even this did not find favour with those who hold (mistakenly in our view) that economic demands are necessarily reformist demands. This view arises from extremist-adventurist distortion of Marxism-Leninism. If the policy of education has any relationship with the structure, or organisation of educational institutions, the structure of the university has its own ideological overtones at least m a given concrete situation. This is what they have failed to see. Significantly enough, all that the DUTA had predicted in February