STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Demanding regularisation the chain hunger strike launched by contractual lecturers entered its 19th day on Saturday. The contractual lecturers were demanding regularisation as per the Civil Services Special Provision Act-2010, a policy framed for the regularisation of all ad hoc, contractual and consolidated employees after seven years of service.
Besides regularisation, they also demanded that their salaries be enhanced as per the latest Apex Court ruling ‘Equal Work Equal Wages’. They disclosed that the government was only paying attention for the enhancement of perks of ministers and MLAs. One of the contractual lecturer, Vinod Kumar who is on fast was shifted to GMC Jammu as his health is deteriorating day by day. He made it clear that he will continue his fast until government fulfils their demands. Along with Vinod Kumar, other contractual lecturers Amrit Pal, Sanjay Kumar, Sangeeta Samyal and Payal Rajput also sat on chain hunger strike.
