STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir 10+2 Academic Arrangement (Contractual) Lecturers expressed resentment against the State Government for not coming out with a regularization policy.
Scores of 10+2 Lecturers assembled at Exhibition Ground Jammu and raised slogans against the government apathy. The aggrieved lecturers castigated the State Government for paying no heed to the plight of school lecturers engaged on Academic Arrangement on a meager pay scale of Rs 7,000 per month.
Urging for the implementation of Apex Court’s decision of ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work’, Abhimanyu Sharma, a contractual lecturer, regretted that the exploitation of the highly educated youth engaged as academic arrangement on contractual basis in schools on nominal wages is deplorable and inhumane. “The government should stop use and throw policy under which every year the government recruits well qualified youth and terminate their services after some time,” he added.
Seeking regularisation of the lecturers on academic arrangement in the Education Department, Gurjeet Singh, another contractual lecturer requested the Chief Minister, Education Minister and the Minister’s of State to frame a policy for inclusion of such lecturers so that the educated youth can be employed in productive way.
Sangeeta Sambyal, another contractual lecturer asked government to stop the recruitment of the Academic Arrangement Contractual every year and continue with the lecturers who are already serving and implement the decision of the Court that “Contractual cannot replace contractual”.
Among those who joined the protest include Vinod Kumar, Rajni Jamwal, Asha Pathania, Kanchan Bala, Vijay Kumar, Balvinder Singh, Aijaz Ahmad, Nayeem Khan, Asif Ahmad Bhat, Balvinder Kour, Seema, Pardeep Kour and Nazia Kouser.
