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Contract lecturers on strike
Seeking regularisation on the services of contract lecturers, the representatives of the ‘Contract Lecturers Association’ are on strike for the last six days here at Dharna Chowk in front of the collectorate in Khammam.
Khammam: Seeking regularisation on the services of contract lecturers, the representatives of the ‘Contract Lecturers Association’ are on strike for the last six days here at Dharna Chowk in front of the collectorate in Khammam.
The representative of the ‘Contract Lecturers Association’ Vinod on Tuesday said that due to the lukewarm response from the government to their long pending demand of regularizing their services they are on strike for the last six days and will continue until the government resolves their problem.
He also said, “The Contract Lecturers who were working for over 16 years for paltry wages made a valuable contribution to the significant improvement in the pass percentage of government colleges. But the government is not in a mood to solve our problem.”
Extending his support to the contract lecturers strike here on Tuesday, the District Secretary of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) Ponnam Venkateshwarlu said that the contract system is the modern way of slavery, where minimum amount of salary is given for full fledged services. It is in a way looting the innocent unemployed educated youth.
The Supreme Court had already given orders to pay equal salary for equal work but the government is ignoring the orders of the Supreme Court and behaving obstinately in regularising the contract lecturers, he alleged.
Many contract lecturers are living in miserable conditions, are unable to fulfil their minimum daily requirements and are facing severe problems, he added.
If the government does not respond to the demands of contract lecturers the CPM party will start a massive movement in support of the contract lecturers to teach the government a fitting lesson, he warned.
The representatives of the ‘Contract Lecturers Association’ Padma, Murali, Krishnarjun, the leaders of the CPM party Yerra Srikanth, K Narasimha Rao and M Gopal were present along with others.
