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| Teachers are just pawns in some pvt institutions | | ?Many are forced to do menial jobs and household works of owners against their will | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, May 24: In several private educational institutions, educated jobless girls and boys are just pawns in the hands of their domineering chairmen, or principals.
Due to their mashrooming, these private organisations have a greater capacity to absorb the educated unemployed youth. But,in several of them, they are the most exploited individuals.
Due to the rising unemployment and their age too, circumstances compel them to work in these institutions. An Early Times survey completed last week in some B.Ed. colleges and private schools showed that the majority teachers in them were the most dispensable individuals.
Though they are engaged as teachers, they are made to do menial jobs against their will. Some do offer little resistance in the beginning, but as the time passes, they become willing pawns.
Reason: If they refuse to do so, they are likely to be replaced by other unemployed youth who may even get ready to do household works of the chairmen, or principals.
Such is the level of exploitation of the unemployment youth in the state.
"Merit is overlooked under such circumstances," remarked Dr Vijay Kumar, a Ph.D. in political science. He said over trivial matters, chairmen, or principals reprimanded these "unemployed" teachers and even insulted them in front of their colleagues, and sometimes students. The punishment, sometimes, could be even more severe. They could be barred from meeting their bosses and made to stand outside their cozy offices.
"If due to hostile circumstances, they make up their mind to leave jobs, there will be hundreds waiting in a queue with their resumes to offer replacements," said Anjana Gupta, a Ph.D. scholar in Jammu University.
Ibrar Malik said though they were given less salaries, they were made to sign salary slips mentioning higher salaries against their names.
During the days of admission to private B.Ed. colleges, or schools, or degree colleges, these teachers worked as agents to get more and more students for their respective institutes. "This job is honorary and is in addition to teaching," Malik added.
To persuade outside B.Ed. candidates to opt for their colleges during counselling at Jammu University's Zorawar Singh auditorium, these teachers (male and female) could be seen permanently camping on the auditorium lawns and holding tea and lunch sessions with the candidates and their accompanying parents to bait them.
However, in the case of schools and colleges, teachers are required to do door-to-door campaigning to increase the strength of students. These campaigns are mostly limited to a teacher's own locality.Whenever they are asked to do menial jobs, it is expected that they will comply, or they can be rendered jobless, and ultimately penniless.
Time may come when teachers could be signed by private institutions to distribute handbills in localities and in passenger vehicles, besides at crowded places, feels Shyam Sunder, a B.Ed. college lecturer.
"The problem of unemployment has become more severe also because government's words do not match its actions," he added, saying the government did not have a clear-cut employment policy. The teachers' condition was the worst in schools as for poor results also, only they were to be blamed, Shyam said.
"And, when they are fired because of poor results, management's this action gets a big thumbs up from all," he regretted. In all these cases, teachers are either the scapegoats, or at the financial mercy of their managements, or principals. Only teachers are blamed for poor perforamnce of students, and not the principals and managements.
How could they deliver the best when they were required to do non-teaching jobs too?
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