Part-time lecturers threaten stir
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, April 05 2013 :
While demanding revised pay scale, part-time lecturers working in various Government colleges and higher secondary schools in the State conducted a joint meeting at the premise of DM College of Commerce here today and drawn the attention of Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh and Education Minister Moirangthem Okendro Singh for taking up immediate actions in this regard.
On the other hand, GP Women's College Part-Time Lecturers' Association has pointed out that for more than a decade, part-time lectures serving in various colleges are receiving a paltry amount as salary which is not in tune to the present day, thus affecting their economic condition.
Apart from the mental disturbance caused over uncertainty in job security and service nature, the paltry amount of salary being received by the part-time lecturers are not even to meet their household needs.
In such a situation, many of the part-time lecturers have not been able to send their children to schools.
The Association also reminded all the concerned authorities and legislators who have time and again assured to provide suitable pay to part-time lecturers through newspapers, at public meetings as well as on the floor of State assembly to make sure that the assurances given are materialize in the larger interest of the people of Manipur.
Urging the concerned department and authorities to understand the plight of the part-time lecturers and show some sympathy and of kindness, the Association has made it clear that the aggrieved part-time lecturers may be compelled to take recourse to various intense agitation in pursuance of their demand for increasing their pay in consonance with increased in the workload following implementation of semester system and hike in the prices of essential commodities in the society.
In another statement, DM College of Commerce Part-Time Lecturers' Association has lamented that even though the remuneration of other Government employees including the contract workers in various departments has been increased in the last 2-3 years, but the Government has not paid any attention to the suffering of the part time lecturers.
The two Associations have also served an ultimatum to the Government giving April 15 as deadline for fulfilling the demands of the part time lecturers and warned of launching if the government failed to pay heed.