Ad-hoc instructors demand regularization in jobs

| Jammu |

All Academic, consolidated, Contractual and ad-hoc based vocational instructors of Department of Skill Development, Jammu & Kashmir under the banner of J& K ITI Employees United Front �a constituent of J&K Employees Joint Action Committee (JKEJAC (G) and All India United Federation of Govt. I.T.I. Employees Associations (AIUFITIEA) staged a one hour protest in Jammu today Thursday demanding exploring possibilities and strategizing ways to regularize the services of more than two hundred vocational instructors duly selected as those of regularly appointed instructors.
�Despite doing as much work as regular instructors, these vocational instructors do not get paid much. The huge disparity between the salaries of Academic, Consolidated, Contractual and adhoc based vocational instructors and the regular instructor is what saps their morale. They get paid meagre remuneration while they are working for more than a decade. The sagging morale of these instructors is a hindrance for driving the expected training outcome. The protesters demanded to revise and hike the salaries of the vocational instructors appointed on academic, contractual, consolidated and adhoc to Rs 25500 per month from the existing Rs 7000/-in order to mitigate the financial sufferings of the these Vocational Instructors,� the protesting employees said.
Nazir Ahmed Molvi senior trade union leader and the President of J&K ITI Employees United Front said that due to non-existent of any regularization policy, the academic arrangement employees could not be regularized and have now crossed the upper age limit. Mr. Molvi urged the UT administration to make a comprehensive policy for regularization of the services these Vocational Instructors.