Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 15: As the ongoing chain hunger strike by the Contractual Lecturers (10+2), entered into 91st day today, the agitators tried to take out march but Police did not allow them to proceed further.
The protesting Contractual Lecturers held a demonstration near the Press Club. They raised slogans against the State Government and also in support of their demand for regularization.
These Contractual Lecturers are demanding their regularization as per the Civil Services Special Provision Act 2010, a policy framed for the regularization of all the Ad-hoc/ Contractual/Consolidated employees after rendering seven years of services.
While addressing the gathering, president of Contractual Lecturers Association, Arun Bakshi said that they were waiting for Cabinet decision as promise by the Education Minister and till then they would continue the ongoing chain hunger strike.
“If our demands are not conceded at an earliest, we will accelerate this movement to a extreme level and the Government has to face the consequences of all this in the coming days,” he warned.
Zabir Hussain Shah, vice president of the Association, said that the Government should avoid its apathetic attitude towards the Contractual Lecturers(10+2) and adopt sympathetic way to settle the problem of the highly educated Contractual Lecturers who are on hunger strike since 14th Feb. 2017.
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