SHAH KHALID
Srinagar, Mar 30: The Contractual College lecturers of Kashmir Division are aghast against the Higher Educational Department for not releasing their monthly wages from the last eight months, causing great innconvienc to this teaching faculty, who are working in various degree colleges across the valley.
A delegation of the contractual appointees told Kashmir Despatch “that they have not been paid a single penny for the last eight months, which has led us and our family close to the starvation point.
According to some lecturers, the present Uncertainty of lockdown has turned our financial position from “bad to worse”. Said a lecturer, who wished anonymity, deputed from South to North.
Meanwhile, various contractual lecturers have also complained that they are single bread owners in their families, however, the delay in their salaries had forced them to borrow the money from their friends and relatives to manage their monthly family expenses, by which they are facing a lot of hardships.
It is pertinent to mention that the majority of the contractual Lecturers are posted in far off areas, as a huge sum of their salary goes on their traveling expenses, however, the irony is that the lackadaisical approach of higher education department have put all of them in a state of distress and dilemma. “I pay over Rs 200 per day as sumo fare for traveling from Srinagar to Anantnag, which has now increased due to hike in the fare. But, unfortunately, no official seems too concerned about it” said Imtiyaz a lecturer.
Meanwhile, the officials at the helm of affairs in Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory have not still think how a contractual appointee could bear such expenses without salary. But the irony is that these dummy drills of delaying the salaries of contractual appointees have put all of them in a lurch seems that they have been hired for humiliation.
According to some academicians, the contractual appointees are sharing the maximum workload in their respective colleges, as they are giving more classes than their permanent counterparts. However, the government doesn’t bother about them Said a Professor in higher education department (on a wish to this newspaper Correspondent to remain anonymous).
When this correspondent called upon Commissioner Secretary Higher Education Mr. Talat Parvaiz Rohella he told this newspaper that” In the month of February we have released their salary. We know these days they are facing hardship, so we will immediately look into this matter and release up their pending wages he said.
