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| Day 5: College contractual lecturers continue strike | | |
Srinagar, July 1: The strike of contractual college lecturers entered fifth day on Friday and there seems no end to the controversy in near future. The class work in colleges across the Valley remained largely affected today also.
Around 650 contractual lecturers have been on indefinite strike since Monday. They are demanding revocation of the nomenclature, terming them academic arrangement lecturers and teaching assistants instead of contractual lecturers; monthly stipends equivalent to the basic salary of the post on which they are engaged; and end to new norm of six classes per day.
A new demanded of one time exemption in NET/SLET was added to the list on Wednesday.
In colleges in the summer capital here and elsewhere in the valley, an estimated 80 per cent of the class work is affected due to the strike, given the workload shared by the contractual staff.
In summer capital most colleges including SP College, Women’s College MA road and Amar Singh College wore a deserted look as students preferred to stay away.
“There is no fun going to the college, as there are hardly any lectures delivered. We are taught mostly by the contractual staff,” said a second year student of the Amar Singh College.
However, in several colleges where students did turn up, they could be seen roaming in the lawns.
“I went to the college because I do not like staying at home,” said a second year student of one of the Women College here. “I came in the morning and since then I was sitting in the lawn with my friends. There were no classes.”
Reports from north Kashmir’s Baramulla and other areas said the strike has brought the work in colleges to a halt.
The insiders in the colleges said the contractual staff does remain present in the college, but they desist from attending classes.
“They remain clustered either in the staff room or anywhere in the lawn, but almost no one of them goes into the class,” said a senior faculty member at Amar Singh College.
The attendance of students, reports said, has been on a decline.
The strike is showing impact in south Kashmir too, reports said.
When contacted, the president college contractual teachers association (CCTA), Fayaz Ahmad, said the strike was being observed with commitment. He, however, hinted that there was no possibility of calling off the strike soon.
“There has been no response from the government. Therefore, the strike will continue,” he said.
Asked about the government response, he said: “So far we have not received any invitation for negotiations.”
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