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| Universities closed for teaching faculty but not schools, colleges | | Teaching fraternity questions dual policy for institutions | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Apr 24: Amid increasing number of Covid-19 infections, the Universities have been closed for the teaching faculty, who have been switched over to online mode but the teaching fraternity of Government Schools as well as Colleges have still been ordered to visit their institutions to take online classes.
The teaching fraternity working in Government Degree Colleges as well as Government run schools have questioned the dual policy of the government and rationale according to which they have been attending the schools and colleges regularly while faculty of varsities not.
“Following increasing numbers in Covid infections, the Union Territory Administration issued an order after which the University of Jammu, Central University of Jammu as well as Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University beside other Universities of the state have directed the teaching faculty not to physically attend the institutions and work online. The Universities have been working online since this week and even the non-teaching employees have been asked to attend the institutions on roster basis”, faculty members of a University informed, adding that the teaching faculty was working from their homes, while the number of non-teaching employees has also been reduced to a minimum level so that departments could work.
However on the other hand the Government Degree Colleges as well as Government run Schools across the Jammu province have been closed for the students but the teaching fraternity was still asked to physically attend the institutions.
“If the intention behind closure of Universities is to prevent the spread of Corona then why the same logic is not implemented over the Schools as well as Colleges”, a teaching fraternity said, adding that in some major colleges, the number of teaching and non-teaching fraternity was in two to three hundred.
“On one hand, assembling hundreds of people is restricted but in some colleges hundreds of teaching and non-teaching faculty members are assembling daily and these large gatherings could be detrimental for the spread of Covid-19 infections”, the teaching fraternity said.
The teachers further said that many of them have to reach their institutions through public transport facilities. “Though the public transport operators are on strike but when they were operating their vehicles, huge crowd had been found in the vehicles”, a teacher said, adding that though the Government has issued instructions for the transport operators to ply vehicles with half of passengers but same logic was not implemented in the Schools and Colleges. |
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