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JKNPP protests exploitation of contractual lecturers, demands their regularization 9/8/2016 11:51:53 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Sept 8: Castigating the state government for paying no heed to the grievances of School, College and Polytechnic lecturers, a strong contingent of Panther party activists along with scores of such lecturers spearheaded by Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP and Balwant Singh Mankotia State President staged a massive protest demonstration seeking immediate salary enhancement and regularization of their services at Exhibition Ground in Jammu today. Citing the exploitation of educated and other unemployed youth of the state as worst form of human rights violation, Singh said that the highly qualified educated unemployed youth in the State were treated like mere expendables. He said that under employment and unemployment problem were homologous which has been a root cause of outrage and embitterment among the youth. He added that it could explode any moment like a catastrophe and cause irreparable damages. Expressing solidarity with the School, College and Polytechnic lecturers engaged on contract / academic arrangement basis and who included Ph.Ds, 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 13 years. He said that it was in 2003 that he had raised their honorarium from Rs. 4000 to Rs. 7000 during his tenure as Education Minister which was never revised thereafter. He said that vide Govt. order no. 1301-Edu of 2003, he had further provided for their regularization after three years services and all such lecturers were to be regularized from the year 2006 onwards. Harsh Dev Singh divulged that several lecturers engaged on academic arrangement in hilly and remote areas had shown reluctance to join services in view of negligible emoluments offered to them with the result that the majority of educational institutions including Schools, Colleges and Polytechnics had become defunct and staff deficient. He said that the highly apathetic approach of the govt. towards the miseries of these lecturers had pushed them towards starvation and other miseries.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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