Early Times Report
Jammu, May 23: Lambasting the state government for turning a deaf ear to the repeated entreaties and representations of school and college lecturers, for redressal of their genuine grievances, Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP and Former Minister today warned a full scale agitation against BJP-PDP coalition for the exploitation of educated and other unemployed youth of the state.
Supporting the cause of the college and school lecturers engaged on contract / academic arrangement basis and who included PhDs, M Phils, he regretted that such highly qualified youth were being paid Rs. 7,000 per month in Higher Secondary schools and Rs. 8,000 in colleges which had not been revised for the last more than 10 years.
Seeking the indulgence of Chief Minister Mehabooba Mufti, Singh advocated for increase in the honorarium of the contractual, academic arrangement lecturers who were being made to work for paltry honorarium of Rs. 7000 in Higher secondary schools as against around Rs. 45,000 being paid to a regular lecturer and demanded the emoluments to be enhanced to atleast Rs. 20,000 as the existing rates had not been revised for the last 10-12 years since 2004.
He further expressed grave concern over non availability of lectures in majority of the remote area higher secondary schools in view of petty emoluments offered resulting in day to day strikes by students and public in such areas. He maintained that all contractual and academic arrangement lecturers are performing the same job as regular lecturers. |
