Sir,
It is a known fact that the mental health of the lecturer directly or indirectly influences the quality of lecture delivered. But the mental health of the contractual lecturers, especially in J&K seems to suffer from deep insecurities and agonies as there is no concrete policy for their permanent employment. The govt’s policy towards contractual college lecturers changed from time to time leaving them in false securities of the future. The first disappointment confronted them when their nomenclature was changed from “contractual” to “lecturer/teaching assistant” on academic arrangement basis. This policy deprived them to become permanent faculty after seven years of service when many of them have completed more than seven years of service with requisite eligibility. The second blow came when the concerned govt. authorities remained adamant by not increasing their pay scales from Rs. 12,000 & 8,000(in case of lecturers and teaching assistants respectively) to the basic pay scale of a college lecturer i.e.Rs.21, 600. The pay scale of a college contractual in other states is far higher than our state. For example, the pay of a contractual college lecturer in Delhi University is above Rs. 35,000 (excluding H.R.A), which is more than four times what a teaching assistant gets in J&K. The contractual lecturers who have already given the golden period of their lives by serving students for more than seven years are intensely apprehensive about their future. It would be indeed a humanitarian act if the govt. comes out with some concrete policy for regularization of lecturers having completed seven years of service or at least increases their pay scale. When the nation builders are themselves in jeopardy, it would be unwise to expect them to give their hundred percent to those who are the future of this nation i.e. their students.
Yours etc…..
Rahul Upadhyay
Sukrala
Research Scholar, Deptt. of Psychology,
University of Jammu
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