Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 8: Castigating the State Government for paying no heed to the plights of school lecturers engaged on academic arrangements, Shiv Sena Hindustan (SSH) today sought implementation of apex court’s decision of ‘equal pay for equal work’ in J&K.
Addressing media persons here today, Shiv Sena Hindustan, State president, Pt Rajesh Kesri, said that engagement of PhD, MPhil and double post graduates as lecturers for negligible emoluments of Rs 7000 per month as against Rs 45000 for their counterparts in regular establishment, despite the same nature of work, was highly discriminatory and amounted to worst form of human rights violation.
He said that the lecturers who were made to work at lesser wages did not do so voluntarily but did so to provide food and shelter to their family at the cost of their self-respect and dignity. He added that the contractual lecturers were rendering their services in the schools ranging from 5 to 15 years and several of them had been terminated by the Government after exploiting them for more than a decade.
Kesri demanded directions to the labour department and others to ensure that the Supreme Court judgement of ‘equal work equal pay’ in respect of contractual employees is followed in totality. The same issue continues, with the huge disparities in the wages and other benefits between regular workers and casual, daily-rated and contract workers doing the same work, he added.
He said that an employee engaged for the same work, cannot be paid less than another, who performs the same duties and responsibilities, certainly not, in a welfare State. Such an action besides being demeaning, strikes at the very foundation of human dignity, Kesri maintained.
Kesri said that the use and throw policy adopted by the Government with regard to such highly educated youth was most contemptuous and shall not be tolerated any more.
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