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| EDUCATION TRIBUNE | Tuesday,
November 19, 2002,
Chandigarh, India |
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What ails work culture in varsities |
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What ails work culture in varsities Karnal In a number of cases, the university administrations find it difficult to contain the restive employees. For instance, the Kurukshetra University Non-teaching Employees Association has served an ultimatum on the university authorities that if all the contractual employees whose services have been dispensed with were not taken back, KUNTEA would start work-to-rule agitation. The university has 400 employees who have been employed on contract basis to cope with the increased workload. The university is not the only one to face such a situation. The other three universities MDU (Rohtak), GJU (Hisar) and the CCSHAU (Hisar) are also sailing in the same boat. The number of contractual employees in the CCSHAU is reported to be in thousands because of work in the agricultural farms. The KU employees are demanding the regularisation of all the 400 contractual employees. Mr R.S. Chaudhary, Vice-Chancellor, KU, says at present situation is the result of an amendment in the university Act made in the year 1991-92. By this amendment, the state government got power to create regular posts in the universities. Not only that, the sanction of the state government was made “essential” for every post to be created even under the UGC schemes. The move was aimed at curtailing university autonomy and to run these as per their political whims. The politicians in power also saw in it the golden opportunity to get their “favourites and political workers” adjusted on contractual posts by pressurising the vice-chancellors. But the politicians in power and the state bureaucracy ill realised the nature of university work which is “time bound and date bound”. Mr Chaudhary maintained that no varsity could afford to postpone the examinations indefinitely, or the declaration of results and also the timely completion of courses. For all this extra staff was needed from time to time. Furthermore, the expansion of the academic work in the universities the opening of new departments and courses and the latest introduction of computer courses has made it incumbent on the universities to recruit more staff to complete the work in time. Mr Chaudhary disclosed that since the year 1991-92, the state government has not allowed the filling of posts on regular basis. Not even such posts where the employees have either retired or left the university service. Consequently, the university has to make do by appointing staff on contract basis. The number of contractual staff in Kurukshetra University has risen to 400 to 450 since 1991-92. Talking about the expansion, Mr Chaudhary stated that in the year 1991-92, the number of students who appeared in KU examinations was between 75000 to 78000. In the 2002 examinations the figure shot up to over 2.10 lakh. The university needed extra staff to declare the results in time and for the teaching work. Besides, the university has added to its strength of hostels. A regional centre at Sirsa and a holiday home at Shimla have come up. Almost every department and the Library was being computerised. One could easily see the need for extra staff. But the state government has been sitting tight over proposal for more staff. Consequently, the university is facing the wrath of the employees. On top of this a judgement of the Punjab and Haryana High Court delivered by Mr Justice Swatantar Kumar made it incumbent on the universities to give “equal pay for equal work” and for ad hoc employees the “minimum pay scale plus DA”. The university has filed an SLP in the Supreme Court against this decision.  |
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