Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 11: The vociferous protests by contractual lecturers working in various polytechnics across the State today entered third day with hundreds of lecturers gathering and demanding their regularization of services at the Director’s offices in both the divisions.
They are protesting under the aegis of All Jammu & Kashmir Polytechnic Academic Arrangements’ Association (AJKPAA) in both Jammu and Kashmir Divisions.
While speaking on the occasion, Atul Sudan, president AJKPAA, Jammu Division said that more than two-third faculty working in the various polytechnics all across the State have been appointed as contractual lecturers on Academic Arrangement and many of them have been working for nearly two decades and as such the fate of the lecturers is hanging in balance as several lecturers have turned over age/ineligible for Government services.
Therefore, the association urged Government to regularize the services of these lecturers by framing a suitable regularization policy, Sudan asserted, adding if the Director, Technical Education does not intervene to address the grievances of the lecturers then association would resort to fast unto death and Government would be held responsible for the dire consequences.
In Kashmir, several contractual lecturers of polytechnics observing fast unto death were maltreated by the Director and other officials.
Meanwhile, Abdul Qayoom Wani, president, Employee Joint Action Committee (EJAC), has assured his full support to the cause of the suffering lecturers of AJKPAA. He said that EJAC shall stand with the solidarity of the lecturers in all odds and circumstances.
The association appealed all the contractual lecturers of Polytechnics to continuously stage indefinite protest demonstrations until their demands are conceded.
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