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| Contractual lecturers threaten mass suicide Unbothered state govt watches as mute spectator | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 26: As discontent among the state government employees because of the insensitive and callous approach of the government is still simmering, another serious discontent is brewing among hundreds of contractual college lecturers in Jammu and Kashmir state with regard to their uncertain future.
In a recent agitation launched by the contractual lecturers who have been teaching classes in the various colleges across the state because of a serious shortage of regular teaching staff at these colleges, the contractual appointees have threatened mass suicides after 27 July if the government fails to listen to their demands till that deadline.
Give its past record, it would be a great surprise, though a pleasant one, if the government would come to the rescue of the frustrated contractual lecturers in the state.
The lecturers are on an agitational path since long now, but the government is not in a mood to relent or listen to their problems. If the government believes that the appointments to the various colleges in the state have to made only on the basis of the recommendations by the Public Service Commission, which is the statutory body authorized to recommend such appointments to the government, then the government should have referred the hundreds of posts lying vacant in various faculties at the colleges level to the commission for advertisement and selection.
The fact that contractual lecturers are working in hundreds in various colleges of the state proves there are so many vacancies in these colleges. It also proves the fact that these vacancies are still lying vacant because they have not been referred to the Public Service Commission for the regular appointment process to begin.
Why these posts have still not been referred to the competent authority for filling them up on a regular and permanent basis is something the senior officers of the higher education department must explain.
The onus of not making regular appointments and allowing the makeshift arrangements to continue falls on the government. Some plain speaking is needed in this case which can only be done by the chief minister, Omar Abdullah if he wants to uphold the credibility of the state government which is unfortunately falling to a new low now.
Having said that, the continuing agitation and the indifference of the state government have brought forward a situation in which the poor students across the state are the worst sufferers. Class work is suffering in each and every college of the state as contractual lecturers have jammed the wheels of teaching work in these institutions.
It must be accepted that once these lecturers are living an uncertain life regarding their future and careers, they cannot be expected to deliver to the innocent students who are suffering for none of their faults.
It is also not possible to carry on smooth functioning of the various colleges in the state without continuing the contractual lecturers till these vacancies are filled through a legitimate and transparent, credible recruitment process.
That goes without saying, but at the same time, the right of the contractual lecturers to get preference for selection to these posts should not be ignored. They have served the institutions for a long time and the government should devise a mechanism to give some weight age to the fact that these lecturers have already acquired sufficient practical teaching experience.
At the same time, it is the duty of the contractual lecturers to ensure that the class work in the various colleges, where they are posted, does not suffer because the poor innocent students should not be held ransom for the fact that the state government has not be listening to the demands of the contractual lecturers.
If the students are held to ransom by the contractual lecturers by stopping class work in the colleges because the government is not listening to their problems, the contractual lecturers would lose the goodwill of the people in the state in the same manner the state government has already lost it. |
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