Part-time lecturers stage protest
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, May 06 2013:
In continuation of their ongoing agitation to press implementation of UGC basic pay scale, part-time and guest lecturers of Thoubal Collage, YK College and Lilong Haoreibi College staged sit-in-protest demonstration in their respective college premises.
Informing this in a statement, Sh Janendro Singh, Joint Secretary of All Manipur Government College Part Time Lecturers' Welfare Association, said that at present, there are 16 part time lecturers in Thoubal college, which has a total student strength of 2000 while in Lilong Haoreibi College with a strength of 1600 students, there are 26 part-time lecturers.
The part-time lecturers have been compelled to launch agitation, starting off with wearing of black badges from April 26 to 30 and then mass sit-in protests in phase-wise manner as the government has failed to keep its commitment on implementing UGC basic pay scale.