KNB News Desk
Srinagar 29 July (KNB) All Jammu and Kashmir College Contractual Teachers Association (JKCCTA) on Thursday staged protest at Press Enclave and demanded the implementation of High Court order pertaining to a maintaining of their status quo.
Scores of aggrieved members and representatives from valley’s different colleges under the banner of JKCCTA raised slogans against an injustice being done to them and demanded the implementation of the High Court order seeking to keep intact the current position of the various employees working in Kashmir’s colleges.
Dr Mohammad Iqbal Chief Spokesperson of JKCCTA said to the media reporters that they had secured their position in different colleges of Kashmir via the status quo order from High Court, which was issued in their favour after they challenged the 2010 Special Provisions Act, keeping the Higher Education Department excluded from it.
Iqbal further said that a 2010 order was made for all those contractual employees of J&K who would be regularized in a particular department after completing of seven years. “Given the Higher Education Department being excluded from the order, we approached the High Court and filed an application there which was later accepted by the court by giving status quo in our favour. The High court ordered that our position should be kept as it is till the case would be decided,” added Iqbal.
He further alleged that their supervising authority is against them and is creating an impediment in their appointments in different colleges.
Also ,Vice President of JKCCTA said that they do not have a problem with the induction of new ones in the colleges, but the court order regarding the maintaining of the already working employees positions should not be ignored. (KNB)