JNV staffs to cease work from today
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, February 13 2013:
Raising their 20-point charter of demands which include introduction of a pension scheme for them, all the teaching staffs in 10 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas of the State have decided to launch an indefinite cease work strike from tomorrow.
Announcing this to mediapersons at Government Dance College, Palace Compound here today, L Gojen, President of All India Navodaya Vidyalaya Staffs Association, State Executive Committee, Manipur, pointed out that All India Navodaya Vidyalaya Staffs Association has already launched an agitation since February 6 .
The agitation would be further escalated by launching an indefinite cease work strike by the teaching staffs in all the 10 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas of the State.
Gojen made it clear that the proposed indefinite cease work strike would not just confine to staying away from taking classes, but also to all other administrative works done by the staffs earlier and the authority of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas and the Ministry of Human Resource & Development should be held responsible for any eventuality in this regard.
He further warned that all the non-teaching staffs of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas in the State would also not be allowed to perform their duties during the course of the strike.
As a part of the agitation, a protest rally would be taken out on February 16 at Imphal and it would be followed by a public meeting, he informed.
Pointing out the main reasons behind launching the strike, Gojen explained that it is an agitation launched against the mal administration of the Government of India whereby the employees of the institution are made to work 24 hours a day, which is similar to the kind of punishment given to prisoner sentenced to rigorous imprisonment.
"The staffs of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya are being used by the authorities as bonded labourers for the last 20-30 years or more.
The human rights of the staffs are being violated and they are made to be socially boycotted even by their families", he lamented.
Furthermore, Gojen informed that staffs of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas have been launchimg various forms of agitations for the last 9 years.
But instead of conceding to the demands, the concerned authority resorted to dismissal of the agitating staffs, which is very unfortunate.
As such the All India Navodaya Vidyalaya Staffs Association, State Executive Committee, Manipur, has decided to carry on with the protest until and unless the demands are fulfilled.
He also informed that the staffs are not allowed to use mobile phones or go out beyond 3 kms from the campus of JNV.
The staffs are not even allowed to own four wheelers.
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, which are set up to impart quality education to talented under-privileged children in rural areas, have around 24,000 teachers and non-teaching staff.
And about 3 lakh children are studying in these schools.
The demands of All India Navodaya Vidyalaya Staffs Association include provision for CCS pension of the government of India to those staffs who joined Navodaya Vidyalaya before January 1, 2004; to provide 2.10% per cent special allowance to the non-teaching staffs; to award MACPS to teaching staffs; to appoint post-graduate teachers for Modern Indian Language; permanent posts for wardens and matrons; to have fix working hours for employees; to conduct regular annual exams for promotion of staff; teaching staffs be given earned leaves and vocational staffs should be given half-pay leaves; to honour court judgments; to provide free education to the children of deceased staffs, etc.