Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 16: National Secular Forum has strongly opposed the proposed Jammu University move to enhance retirement age of the faculty members as this would directly hit the educated unemployed youth.
The university has proposed an agenda item for the ensuing university Council meet to increase the retirement age from 62 to 65 at a time when the State is reeling under acute unemployment problem with youth desperately hankering for employment, said Vikas Sharma, NSF president, while talking to media persons, here today.
While elaborating, Dr Vikas said that the educated youth were facing major problem of unemployment, which is causing frustration and depression among them. “Under these circumstances the enhancement in retirement age is irrelevant and injustice to the thousands of unemployed youth who feel themselves a burden in the society”, he added and gave example of developed countries where the Government employees are demanding reduction in retirement age.
Dr Vikas said that university authority has proposed agenda items No. 80.38 and 80.40 to raise the retirement age from 62 to 65 for Professors, Registrar and posts equal to Register, thus raising questions on the credibility of university administration running autocratic system at the cost of thousands of educated unemployed youth.
“When retirement age of Registrar in the Central University Jammu is 62 years, then what is the logic and justification of enhancing age from existing 62 years to 65 here in university of Jammu?” he questioned and strongly opposed the proposal.
Dr Vikas Sharma also appealed to the Governor, who is also Chancellor of Jammu University, to personally intervene and turn down the illogical agenda items No. 80.38 and 80.40, which is likely to be placed before the forthcoming coming University Council meeting so that the interests of educated unemployed youth are served better to eradicate rampant unemployment in the State.
Among those, who were present in the press-conference, included Papinder Singh, Manmohan Singh and Varun Dogra.
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