Srinagar: Around 250 contractual lecturers working at Directorate of Technical Education J&K on Saturday went on indefinite hunger strike and staged strong protest demonstrations in both divisions of Jammu and Kashmir demanding their regularization of services at the Directors offices.
While castigating the lackadaisical attitude of the Directorate Technical Education Jammu and Kashmir towards the plight of contractual lecturers working in the Polytechnics all across the State, the President of AJKPAA (All Jammu & Kashmir Polytechnic Academic Arrangements Association) Shah Nawaz Qadri said that they have been appointed in various polytechnics from last 20-years and some of them have crossed the overage limit while serving the department till date. The authorities have yet to frame the concrete policy for their regularization.
Qadri said that more than two-third faculty working in the various polytechnics all across the state has been appointed as contractual lecturers on Academic Arrangement basis who are rendering their services with great zeal and determination.
He said that many of them have been working for nearly two decades and as such the fate of the lecturers is hanging in balance as several lecturers have turned over age /ineligible for govt. services and hence the association has reiterated its demand for regularization of services of the lecturers by urging the govt to frame a suitable regularization policy.
Qadir said that on May 27 this year, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has already marked to the Minister Technical Education Vikar Rasool to form the policy for the regularization of lecturers which was duly communicated to the Commissioner Secretary.
Vikar Rasool accordingly on May 28 forwarded the case to the Commissioner Secretary the then Parvaiz Ahmad Malik (IAS) who marked the same to the Director Technical Education, Qadiri said.
He said that the file had been sent to the Director for his remarks but he has taken no action so far and blatantly defied the instructions. He said that when the lecturers approached the Director Technical Education to address their grievances he straight away refused to hear them and paid no heed to the miseries of the teaching fraternity.
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