Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 26: All J&K Polytechnics Academic Arrangements Association today continued protest dharna on the 20th consecutive day of its agitation for regularization policy.
All the academic staff of various colleges from Jammu division participated in the dharna at Exhibition Ground while the staff in Kashmir Division also continued their sit in protest at Press Enclave Kashmir.
At Jammu, the protest was led by Ankush Gupta, vice-president of AJKPAA. While addressing the gathering on the occasion and justifying their demand, he said that the department it self has accepted in the Legislative Council that among 313 posts of Lecturers, 248 are vacant where as among 89 posts of demonstrators, 80 posts are vacant and all these vacant posts have been filled up by academic arrangements that are the real pillar of Technical Education Department in running their 24 Polytechnics smoothly.
Monika Balowria, a female academic arrangement, claimed that academic arrangement staff was sharing the maximum teaching loads in the Polytechnics on just a merger amount of Rs 6500 and 7000. “Today a labor is getting more than Rs 300 per day but the engineer creators of the State are paid less than Rs 250 per day,” she added and also pointed out that all the academic staff was engaged through a proper selection process by the selection committee fulfilling all criteria and there are toppers among the merit of Division level.
Contesting the Department’s claim that they were engaged under academic arrangements for just one year and thus could not be regularized, Ajay Chib, general secretary AJKPAA, sought to know that how some of the academic arrangement were serving for 28years continuously and many more than 20 years and 10 years. “The department is unable to justify the term academic arrangement as the terms and conditions implemented on us are same as of contractual,” he added and alleged that the department had deliberately used the term academic arrangements to deprive them from the regularization benefits of J&K Civil Services Act 2010.
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