Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 6: Coming down heavily on the State Government for perpetuating discrimination against the educated youth of Jammu while divesting them of their due share in employment besides adopting the policy of ‘use and throw’ against them, chairman of the NPP Harsh Dev Singh exhorted the BJP-PDP Govt to immediately respond to the genuine call of the protesting plus two contractual lecturers who had been observing chain hunger strike since last 20 days.
Addressing a press conference here today, Harsh Dev said that the teaching fraternity had been rendering their services with zeal and honesty in schools on paltry salary of Rs 7000 per month with a hope that they would be regularized to earn with dignity and honour. He regretted that many of them who had given several valuable years of their life to the Education Department were ruthlessly terminated by the Government after taking their services for more than a decade.
Singh said that earlier instances where the highly educated youth of Jammu including PhD’s, MPhils and double Post Graduates had consigned their degrees to flames considering them as in fructuous had exposed the government and Saffron Party in particular that they were power hungry. Perturbed by the deteriorating condition of Vinod Kumar, a contractual lecturer who had reportedly been fasting for the last 20 days, he cautioned the State Government and the BJP leaders to immediately respond to the calls of the teaching community and order prompt Medical intervention for the waning protester.
Dubbing the State Govt’s announcement of ex-gratia and jobs to NOKs of slain militants and thousands of stone pelters as highly obnoxious and insane, Harsh Dev Singh lampooned BJP’s claims of “Achey Din” as mirage for the educated youth. He said that while the ruffians, vandals, hooligans, anti-nationals and illiterates were glorified in Kashmir, the nationalist underemployed youth were exploited, suppressed and quelled.
The people who had ransacked the Valley followed the doctrine of secessionists, endorsed Burhan Wani’s ideology, attacked defence and security personnel, unfurled Pak/ ISIS flags, vandalized public property and incited sedition were extended olive branch by the unholy alliance. And contrarily, the State Government’s apathy towards the educated youth forced them to languish in open in Jammu against deprivation and biases, NPP leader lamented.
Harsh Dev sought a policy of regularization for all such highly qualified lecturers who had always been the assets to the otherwise sick educational system in the State.
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