Several teaching aspirants submitted a memorandum to the divisional educational authorities seeking permission to commit mass suicide if the ongoing ban on teachers’ recruitment in higher education is not lifted soon.
The aspirants stated that several prior pleas made before the government in the past have fallen on deaf ears. Hence, uniting under an action committee of PhD, NET, SET qualified candidates, the group sought permission to end their lives as a last resort.
The government has frozen teachers recruitment under the garb of revising staffing pattern and other technical reasons.
Sandip Pathrikar, one of the leaders of the protest said, “Today, over 9,500 posts of assistant professor are vacant, but they are not fulfilled by the government. Such unjust policies are ruining the lives of scores of qualified aspirants.”
The agitating candidates also pressed for the creation of separate job posts for the social sciences streams at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University (BAMU), Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada (SRTM) University in Nanded and other affiliated colleges.While political science, public administration and sociology are among the subjects that are covered under social sciences, the agitators alleged that both these institutes were the only state universities in Maharashtra that have combined the entire stream under a single teaching post.
Consolidated pay of Rs 25,000 per month to clock-hour-basis (CHB) teachers and government aid to unaided divisions in colleges are some of the other demands the aforesaid action committee has raised.
The committee leaders said Maharashtra education minister Vinod Tawde has been intimated about our demands.
Divisional authorities from higher education department said all demands raised by the protesting candidates come within the purview of the state government. The government has to take policy decisions on the demands.
The aspirants stated that several prior pleas made before the government in the past have fallen on deaf ears. Hence, uniting under an action committee of PhD, NET, SET qualified candidates, the group sought permission to end their lives as a last resort.
The government has frozen teachers recruitment under the garb of revising staffing pattern and other technical reasons.
Sandip Pathrikar, one of the leaders of the protest said, “Today, over 9,500 posts of assistant professor are vacant, but they are not fulfilled by the government. Such unjust policies are ruining the lives of scores of qualified aspirants.”
The agitating candidates also pressed for the creation of separate job posts for the social sciences streams at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University (BAMU), Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada (SRTM) University in Nanded and other affiliated colleges.While political science, public administration and sociology are among the subjects that are covered under social sciences, the agitators alleged that both these institutes were the only state universities in Maharashtra that have combined the entire stream under a single teaching post.
Consolidated pay of Rs 25,000 per month to clock-hour-basis (CHB) teachers and government aid to unaided divisions in colleges are some of the other demands the aforesaid action committee has raised.
The committee leaders said Maharashtra education minister Vinod Tawde has been intimated about our demands.
Divisional authorities from higher education department said all demands raised by the protesting candidates come within the purview of the state government. The government has to take policy decisions on the demands.
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