JU SC/ST Employees Association highlights demands, issues

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 26: Under the chairmanship of its president R L Kaith, the Jammu University SC/ST Employees Association held a meeting, here today,  wherein Association members alleged that their matters were  first lingered for years and then quashed by the authorities.
While addressing the meeting, the Association general secretary S S  Heer lamented that the Standing Committee for  ensuring effective implementation of the policies and programmes of the Government  in respect of SCs and STs, never met for the last more than two decades  while no action has been taken by the authorities to provide representation to any SC/ST in any of its competent bodies of the university.
Association members said that their Association despite being the only Government  recognized body in the University,  has not been allotted accommodation to establish its office on the campus as a result of which they had to sit in the open on the ground for holding their routine meetings.
The Association urged for compliance of UGC instructions and suitable action on their other pending issues.
Those  who attended the meeting,  included  Des Raj Nandan, Milkhi Ram Malhotra, Parddep Kumar Shavotra, B R Angral, Kewal Krishan Sagotra, Sukhdev Bhagat, Kunj Lal, Des Raj, Ashok Kumar, Sudesh Kumar and Mukesh Kumar.