Part-timers protest pay anomaly
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 10 2013 :
Demanding implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendation, part-time lecturers of Imphal College today staged sit-in-protest at its Tiddim Road college campus.
According to political science lecturer L dorendro Singh, Imphal College has 26 part-time lecturers, including nine ladies, who have been discharging their respective duties since 1997 .
Under the 5th Pay Commission scale the part-timers have been receiving monthly salary of Rs 8000 which is impossible to bear expenditures related to education of children, he conceded and informed that part-time lecturers of Manipur's 28 colleges have been urging authorities concerned for implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendation but without any positive response till date.