National Conference on Saturday expressed dismay over termination of services of contractual lecturers, saying the move will hit the livelihood of scores of families.
A delegation led by Party’s Provincial President Nasir AslamWani, district president Srinagar Peer Afaq, Provincial President YNC SalmanAli Sagar met the protesting lecturers at Partap Park here.
While interacting with the protesting lecturers, Wani saidthe move of terminating the contract of lecturers was “reckless” and was boundto affect the living of scores of lecturers engaged by the educationdepartment.
“By doing away with services of lecturers midway in thecurrent session the government is inadvertently affecting the studies ofstudents,” he said.
Wani said the decision would add up to the number ofunemployed youth in the state. He said the education department was alreadyfaced with shortage of teachers and other manpower.
“One fails to understand as to how the department will meetthe scope of imparting education in the state. I urge the incumbentadministration to roll back the order and resume their services as soon aspossible so that normal classes are not affected,” said Wani
He said the need of the hour was to engage the servingcontractual lecturers permanently. “The administration should immediately fillthe vacancies in the education department and first preference in any caseshould be given to the contractual lectures that have been offering theirservices to the department since 2018,” Wani said.