SRINAGAR — The Supreme Court (SC) has strongly reprimanded the Jammu and Kashmir Department of Higher Education for ignoring the legitimate demands of contractual college lecturers. In addition to the paid salaries, it has also issued orders to take immediate steps to ensure their immediate placement in the colleges as per the law.
A law has been passed in favour of the employees and the decision to make them permanent after a continuous period of seven years has been made mandatory.
The winning 700 contractual lecturers are performing their duties with a smile on their faces. Unfortunately, several temporary lecturers working in various colleges of Jammu and Kashmir for years have not been brought under the purview of the 2010 Act.
Governments have played with the legitimate demands of hundreds of temporary lecturers, which they are deeply sorry about.
The Department of Higher Education has not given up and has forced hundreds of temporary college lecturers, who have been enlightening the nation for the past two years, to suffer and challenge their demands in the Supreme Court.
It is worth mentioning that the Supreme Court in an order strongly condemned the policy adopted by the Higher Education Department besides the UT Government towards temporary college contractual lecturers.
Wages are remitted on an emergency basis. In addition, about 700 temporary lecturers stationed in Jammu and Kashmir have been waging a war of permanence for the last decade, during which they have fought dozens of times outside the Jammu Secretariat in addition to Srinagar's Press Colony.
This post first appeared on The Kashmir Pulse
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