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Exploitation of highly qualified youths intolerable: Harsh 8/24/2016 10:27:08 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Aug 24:Castigating the government for turning a deaf ear to the repeated representations of School, College and Polytechnic lecturers for redressal of their genuine grievances, a strong contingent of Panther party activists along with scores of such lecturers spearheaded by Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP today staged a massive protest demonstration seeking their salary enhancement and regularization of services at Exhibition Ground. Terming the exploitation of educated and other unemployed youth of the state as worst form of human rights violation, Singh said that the fast swelling number of highly qualified educated unemployed youth in the State were treated like bonded labourers. He said that under employment and unemployment problem were homologous which has been a root cause of simmering unrest and embitterment among the youth. Expressing solidarity with the cause of the College, School and Polytechnic lecturers engaged on contract / academic arrangement basis and who included PhDs, M Phils, Double post graduates etc., he regretted that such highly qualified youth were being paid Rs. 7,000 per month in Higher Secondary schools and Polytechnics where as Rs. 8,000 in colleges which had not been revised for the last more than 12 years. He regretted that while the MLAs voted themselves a whopping salary of Rs. 1.60 lacs in the recently concluded session of the Legislative Assembly, none of them bothered to rake up the issue of these highly qualified who were being paid less than a Class-IV employee despite holding doctorate and even post doctorate degrees. Seeking intervention of Chief Minister Mehabooba Mufti into the grave issue, Singh advocated for enhancement in the honorarium of all such the contractual/ academic arrangement lecturers who were being made to work for paltry salary as against around Rs. 45,000 being paid to a regular lecturer and demanded hike in the emoluments to at least Rs. 20,000 as the existing rates had not been revised since 2004.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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