Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 16: On 11th day of the ongoing protest dharna by All J&K Polytechnic Academic Arrangements Association, All J&K PHE ITI Trained CP Workers Association joined the protesting employees at Exhibition Ground Jammu and assured full support to them on behalf of their Association.
Tanveer Hussain, president of the All J&K PHE ITI Trained CP Workers Association, addressing the Polytechnic academic arrangements and said that their association would stand with them shoulder to shoulder in all circumstances.
“Today in J&K educated staff is on roads struggling for their rights but Government is in deep slumber and no one is paying attention to the aggrieved employees,” he said and condemned the Government policy of use and throw of educated technocrats. He said that all academic arrangements working in Polytechnics were well qualified and have been working on clear vacancies. “Government should absorb all the educated staff of Polytechnics who have given so long period in serving the department,” he demanded. Others who accompanied Tanveer, were, Hoshiar Singh, Sanjeev Kumar Thakur, Vijay Kumar and Swarn Singh.
The protest dharna in Jammu was led by Atul Sudan and in Kashmir Shahnwaz Qadir led the protesting academic arrangements.
Addressing the gathering here, Atul Said that it was 11th day of their agitation, which would be continued till something concrete is assured by the Government for a regularization policy for them . He said there are 348 vacant posts in Polytechnics and number of academic arrangements is about 200, hence the Government can easily absorb this staff, which is well experienced and fulfills all required qualification criteria,” he explained.
Pooja Gupta, an aggrieved Academic Arrangement Contractual Lecturer, urged the Chief Minister to intervene into the matter and frame a suitable policy for them to save their future.
Ajay Chib, general secretary of the Association, demanded that a regularization policy should be framed for them or JK Civil Services Special Provision Act 2010 should be amended to include academic arrangements in the purview of the said act so as to pave way for their regularization.
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