New Delhi, Jan. 30 -- Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta on Thursday wrote to Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena demanding intervention in alleged "gender-based discrimination" in the promotion policies of the Delhi government's Directorate of Education (DoE).

In his letter on Thursday, Gupta forwarded a representation from a teachers' welfare society, Unified Development Initiative of Teachers and Administrators (UDITA), which alleged that separate seniority lists are maintained for male and female teachers.

Women teachers, despite being higher in overall experience and numbers, are often made to wait many years for promotion, while male teachers are promoted faster, Gupta wrote in the letter.

Although the matter is pending before the D...