JAMMU: Castigating the State Government for paying no heed to the plights of contractual lecturers, scores of such lecturers, who are on hunger strike for the last 21 days, on Monday took out a protest march.
The agitating lecturers under the banner of All J and K Contractual Lecturers (10+2) Forum took out rally from Exhibition Ground Jammu amidst anti-government slogans and demanded immediate regularisation of their services.
Seeking implementation of Apex Court’s decision of ‘equal pay for equal work’ in J and K, contractual lecturers, said that engagement of Ph D, M.Phil and double post graduates as lecturers for negligible emoluments of Rs 7,000 per month as against Rs. 45,000 for their counterparts in regular establishment, despite the same nature of work, was highly discriminatory and amounted to worst form of human rights violation.
Arun Bakshi, State President of the Forum, sought framing of a suitable regularisation policy and inclusion of such lecturers within the ambit of Special Regularisation Provisions Act of 2010.
Pankaj Sharma, Naveen Khajuria and two females also sat on chain hunger strike.