STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: The chain hunger strike by contractual lecturers entered 294th day on Monday near Press Club demanding their regularization as per the Civil Services Special Provision Act 2010.
These striking lecturers held protest demonstration and raised slogans against government for not conceding their demands.
While addressing the media persons, Arun Bakshi said, “All governments have ignored the highly educated youth and even the present govt despite of assurances is doing nothing for us except exploitation “.
He further said, “Genuine demands of contractual Lecturers for the regularisation as per Civil Services Special Provision Act. 2010 has already been done in all case of doctors, engineers, range officers, language instructors, information officers as well as in case of teachers of education departments, only lecturers have been debarred from the right of regularization.”
He also said that they will continue the chain hunger strike till their case for regularization is settled. He asked Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister to personally intervene redress their demand in the forthcoming cabinet meeting.
Meanwhile Sanita Koul, Anjana Bajaj, Pawan Kumar and Pankaj Sharma were sitting on chain hunger strike.
