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| Contractuals in GDCs face salary crisis | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 9: The Higher Education department has failed to plug a rot in the system, which deprives hundreds of lecturers engaged on academic arrangement basis during every session with monthly remuneration as maximum of them have been getting remuneration occasionally.
According to the contractual staff engaged in various Government Degree Colleges (GDCs) of Jammu region, in maximum of the colleges they have not been paid since the month of September. “Since our engagement in the month of September in various colleges of Jammu province, we have not been paid the remuneration even for one month”, a contractual faculty member engaged in a Government Degree College said, adding that similar was the situation in other colleges of Jammu province.
He further said that in some of the colleges which fall under Cluster University of Jammu, remuneration of past few months was paid in the month of January-February only but not on a regular monthly basis.
Another contractual faculty engaged in the colleges of Kashmir province informed that though their session began in March-April every year but they have also not been paid monthly remuneration by the respective College authorities. “We have not been paid for the month of January and February 2021, while the remuneration of over four months was paid in the month of December 2020”, another faculty member engaged on academic arrangement basis said.
Castigating the concerned GDCs as well as the Higher Education department, the contractual faculty members said that it was difficult for them to manage daily financial affairs without payment of regular monthly remuneration to them. “We have to exhaust our minimum savings or to take loan from our relatives or from parents to do our duties”, the contractual staff said, and asserted that if they have been discharging their duties on a monthly basis, they should be given remuneration on a monthly basis, to save humiliation of the contractual staff.
An official of the department informed Early Times that it was the failure of the College authorities as well as Higher Education department level that the contractual lecturers have not been paid regular remuneration.
“Those engaged against the regular posts in the colleges, their remuneration is paid from the budget sanctioned by the Department from the Secretariat level, while others have been paid from the respective College’s Local Pool fund but for same sanction is required from the higher authorities. The callous approach of the clerical staff of the respective Colleges as well as Higher Education Department at the Secretariat level delays the monthly payment on a regular basis”, the official said.
The contractual faculties have appealed to Lieutenant Governor MK Sinha to issue directions to the Higher Education department to plug the rot, so that they should be paid on a monthly basis rather than after months together.
On being asked if the problem of non-payment of monthly remuneration would be addressed, Director Colleges Peerzada Mohammad Yusuf hanged up his call, after listening to the matter. After repeated calls, he didn’t pick up his phone. |
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