Stop contractual appointments

Sir,

Presently, the State Govt is offering jobs to the youth on contractual basis and due to this the youth are discontented and restless. The reasons for frustration among youth are many as:

The contractual employee get job only for a specific period of time and after the expiry of the period, he again becomes unemployed and frustrated a lot.

The person appointed on contractual basis is not regularised on the post he is working and later, he will get overaged and face dark career.

Contractual appointments create uncertainity and it is not in the overall interest of the youth. Moreover, it wastes their energy and potential.

The present State Govt by appointing youth on contractual basis is trying to show that something is being done for unemployed in the State. But in reality, the contractual appointments by the Govt is purely an exploitation of the sentiments of the qualified youth and moreover, it is not going to give the Govt. a good stuff to serve.

No doubt the Govt is always making a plea of financial crisis and has meagre resources to meet the huge salary-bill of the employees, but some mechanism should be evolved in a substantial way so that permanent employment is generated for the countless unemployed. Government must find avenues to make regular recruitments rather than resorting to contractual appointments.

The reduction in the huge expenditure on the jumbo ministry of the State Govt and putting a check on the lavish expenses incurred on administrative and bureaucratic set up can help the Govt to overcome the problem of unemployment upto some extent. There is a drastic need that State administration should properly sensitise the society and provide permanent job-opportunities to the youth before the situation becomes grim.

Pradyot Gupta
230, Rehari Colony
Jammu.

Ban on tuitions

Sir,

The present Government's decision to put a stop on the age long practice of tuitioning is really a revolutionary one. The practice of tuition has long been in vogue. It was an additional effort on the part of the parents to ensure removal of educational weaknesses that a child suffers either due to his/her individual variations or somewhere slackness in his/her schooling. But the shadow of materialism became so thick that tuitioning has become a market business. The students failing to engage a tutor would have to face failure in the examination. So much so that even contracts to get through the examination were used to be executed with the concerned teachers and heavy fees were paid for it. This gave rise to total unpleasantness among the poor students who could not afford such fat tuitions. With this, the enthusiasm to teach students with dedication got lost. Thus royal and pious profession of a teacher became a slur on the society. Banning of tuition is virtually a welcoming step. With this, atleast exploitation of the students may come to end and the poor students would a heave a sigh of relief as they can have a fair chance to exhibit their skill. Simultaneously, it is highly becoming that the teachers who show encouraging results and serve with dedication should be monetarily benefitted by awarding additional increments etc.

Yours etc....
K N Sharma
Salehri (Sunder Bani)