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| Teachers mere pawns in many BEd colleges, other pvt institutions; forced to do menial jobs against will | | | Bharat Bhushan
Jammu, Dec 28: Educated unemployed youth are the most exploited lot in B.Ed. colleges and other private institutions across the region. Due to rising unemployment and their age too, almost everyone of them is compelled to work there.
While teaching is mandatory for them, they are also compelled to do household works of their domineering bosses, i.e. chairmen, or owners. They are mere pawns in the hands of these less qualified people.
Due to their mushrooming, these private organisations have a greater capacity to absorb the educated unemployed youth. But, in several of them, they are the most exploited individuals.
A survey showed that teachers in private institutions, including schools, degree colleges and B.Ed. colleges, were the most dispensable individuals. Though they were engaged as teachers, they were being forced to do menial jobs against their will.
Some do offer little resistance in the beginning, but as the time passes, they become willing pawns. Reason: Refusal to do non-literary works would mean their replacement with those who volunteer to do all this to carve out a place for themselves.
In most B.Ed. colleges, they are paid less salaries but their signatures are taken on high-salary receipts. They are retained in the colleges till late in the evening to finish clerical works. Such is the level of exploitation of the unemployed youth in the state.
There is no check of the authorities concerned on them and day-to-day affairs are being run in these organisations in a most undemocratic and autocratic manner.
This correspondent spoke to some of these teachers and all of them held the view that Jammu University ought to speak to them privately to find out if they were being paid as per the UGC norms.
"No one will speak on the issue in open as it involves owners who can turn them out anytime," they added.
"Merit gets overlooked under such circumstances," remarked Dr Vijay Kumar, who has done Ph.D. in political science.
He said over trivial matters, chairmen, or principals reprimanded the "unemployed" teachers and even insulted them in front of their colleagues, and students.
The punishment, sometimes, could be even more severe. They could be barred from meeting their bosses and made to stand outside their cozy offices.
"If due to hostile circumstances, they decide to leave jobs, there will be hundreds waiting in a queue with their resumes to offer replacements," said Anjana Gupta, a Ph.D. scholar in Jammu University.
Ibrar Malik said though they were given less salaries, they were made to sign salary slips mentioning higher salaries against their names.
When admission to B.Ed. colleges is on, these teachers can be seen taking rounds of the university campus and trying to get more and more students for their respective organisations. "This job of an agent has been made compulsory for all the teachers by the college chairmen," Malik added.
These "agents" could be seen holding tea and lunch sessions in university lawns with the candidates and their accompanying parents to bait them.
However, in the case of schools, teachers are required to do door-to-door campaigning to increase the strength of students. These campaigns are mostly limited to a teacher's own locality.
Whenever they are asked to do menial jobs, it is expected that they will comply, or they can be rendered jobless, and ultimately penniless.
Time may come when teachers could be asked by these private institutions to distribute handbills in localities and in passenger vehicles, besides at crowded places, feels Shyam Sunder, a B.Ed. college lecturer. |
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