Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 28: Senior NPP leader Harsh Dev Singh has said that by failing to respond to the most genuine concerns of the 10+2 contractual lecturers observing day-night chain hunger strike in Jammu for the last 227 days, the BJP-PDP had provided the most glaring example of its contempt and disregard for the educated suffering youth of the State.
Singh said that the protestors comprised female lecturers in majority who had been sitting on fast in sun and rain, battling the vagaries of weather for several months with many of them having taken ill but regretfully the Govt failed to show even the slightest concern towards their most deplorable plight.
NPP leader said that the highly qualified agitating lecturers were often joined by their families and children who complained of economic distress but none in the so called popular Govt bothered to pay a heed. He claimed that issue was also taken up by him with the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in presence of DyCM Dr Nirmal Singh but no result has been seen till today.
Urging upon the civil society besides social and political organizations to come to the support of the contractual lecturers seeking regularization policy besides enhancement of honorarium. Singh said that no responsible citizen could overlook the gross injustice perpetrated on educated younger generation. He explained that extracting work from such contractual lecturers for 5 to 15 years on monthly honorarium of Rs 7000 and then suddenly disengaging them was not only a grave injustice with the highly qualified youth but amounted to worst form of State exploitation.
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