NAWANSHAHR: The non-teaching staff working in aided colleges across Punjab, is up in the arms to start protest to press the government for accepting their long pending genuine demands. The Union in a letter addressed to Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann have sought immediate fulfillment of their demands otherwise the Union would be forced to put up a Pucca Morcha in front of the residence of the Higher Education Minister.
Mandeep Singh Bedi, President, Vivek Markanda, General Secretary, Kashmir Chand, Secretary, Rajinder, Parveen Handa of Private College Non-teaching Employees’ Union Punjab, (PCNETU) accused the successive state governments of indifferent attitude towards their demands since long. They said revised house rent allowance and medical allowance has not been implemented to non-teaching staff working in aided colleges since 2006 but it has been implemented to teaching staff working in aided colleges.
" Though the Non teaching Employees working in the government aided colleges have more working hours than the teaching staff, but the government have been meting out step motherly treatment to them", ryued the PCNETU leaders.
The staff members, in the letter, said that the benefit of revision of pay scale to non-teaching staff of aided colleges was also pending for sanction with the Punjab government since 2011, but the government is paying no heed towards their demands.
“Apart from this, the sanction has been accorded to fill vacant aided posts of teaching staff of aided colleges in view of policy formulated by the Department of Education and Finance, but the same has not been done in the case of non-teaching staff. We demand that on the same pattern, the sanction should also be accorded to fill vacant posts of clerk, peon, chowkidar etc”, said Mandeep Singh Bedi, President of the union while adding that the PCNETU would have no other option to start a pucca morcha in front of the house of the Higher Education Minister, Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, if the government did not accept the long pending demands.