Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 14: Proje-cting the pathetic plight of the contractual lecturers observing hunger strike in Jammu in the scorching heat with mercury hovering around 46° C, chairman of the NPP and former minister Harsh Dev Singh today appealed the Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti to issue early instructions for redressal of their genuine claims and grievances.
During his meeting with the Chief Minister in Srinagar today, Singh apprised her about the plight of 10+2 contractual lecturers who were sitting on 24×7 relay fast for the last four months in the sun and rain with not a single word emanating from the Govt for settling their long pending demand of regularization. He said that contractual lecturers were engaged in schools on paltry emoluments of Rs 7000 per month and were terminated under the most obnoxious “use and throw” policy at the sweet will of authorities. He demanded that they be regularized after a fixed period of service with further framing of a policy reserving a fixed number of seats for them in all selections for lecturers and teachers.
Pointing towards the equally deplorable plight of contractual technocrats working in the polytechnic colleges, Singh pointed out that having served for 7, 10 and even 24 years in specific cases, the said lecturers were denied regularization and made to work on contract at the negligible emoluments of Rs 7000 which was the greatest violation of human rights besides exploitative enslavement of highly qualified technocrats. He apprised the Chief Minister that there were around 250 contractual lecturers in 24 polytechnics of the State who could be easily absorbed against the available 328 sanctioned posts lying vacant, but the lack of political will was the greatest obstacle in the absorption of the said technocrats. No financial implication was involved in view of sanctioned posts for the said polytechnics already existing, Singh said.
Harsh Dev further projected the genuine grievances of the Female Multipurpose Health Workers (FMPHWs) who were not only denied their salaries for the last around 15 months but were cane charged and mercilessly beaten for having demanded their pending salaries. Likewise, the daily rated workers of PHE, PWD, M&RE, I&FC, Tourism, TDAs etc who were without wages for the last two years was also taken up with the CM.
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