Jammu, Feb 19: Jammu and Kashmir Contractual College Lecturers Association has decided to go on for mass leave on February 23 in support of its demands.
 Addressing a press conference, here Thursday, Prof Harpeet Kour, Vice-President of the Association, said that the contractual lecturers serving in all the colleges across the state will observe one day mass leave on February 23.
 The Association claimed that the government has failed to release salary of contractual lecturers since August 2009 and all the efforts at individual level and at the association level to get the salary released have failed as the government was paying any heed to their demands. She said that that the Association has also been demanding a policy to regularize lecturers and teaching assistants working in different colleges at par with the policy formulated by the government for other departments. The enhancement of the salary of lecturers and teaching assistant is also another issue confronting the contractual lecturers, she added.
 “The contractual employees are around 70 per cent of total strength of the college lecturers across the state but higher education department was adopting a policy of hire and fire completely ignoring the principal of natural justice”, Kour said. The contractual lecturers, she said, have been burning mid night oil which was evident from the result of examinations of schools where majority of the lecturers were serving on contractual basis.

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