Non teaching staff of private colleges rue step-motherly treatment

The Private College Non teaching Employees Union, Punjab(PCNTEU) at its state body meeting held  at GGN Khalsa College, here,today, rued the step motherly treatment being meted out to the non teachingstaff of private colleges. 

Mandeep singh Bedi ( Khalsa College, Amritsar) and VivekMarkanda( BLM Girls College, Nawanshahr), state president and secretaryrespectively of the PCNTEU, while addressing the meeting accused the governmentof adopting step motherly stance  towards non teaching employees ofprivate colleges. 

Divulging details, they said that several posts of nonteaching employees were lying vacant in the privately managed governmentcolleges but the state government had not been filling the posts.Therevised house rent and medical allowance from January 2006 had not beensanctioned to  non teaching staff working in aided colleges while ithad already been given to the teaching staff. Similarly, the implementation ofnotifications regarding benefit of revision of pay scales and proficiency stepup after 4-9-14 years of service from December 2011 had also been lying pendingfor the non teaching staff. 

The PCNETU, Punjab also criticised the state governmentfor pushing the privately managed aided colleges towards grave financialcrisis. The state government had imposed a cut on grant in aid of 20 per cent.Instead of 95 percent, now, the aided colleges had been receiving 75 percentgrant in aid. Besides, the amount of scholarships was  not being paid bythe government. 

The issues like highhandedness of principals for forcingnon-teaching employees to take earned leaves in place of casual leaves , delayin granting leave encashment and confirmation of services after four years etc.were  also discussed at the meeting. The PCNETU took serious note of thesegrievances and warned the concerned principals and managements to solve theissues immediately otherwise the PCNETU would launch a stir. 

Dr.Anil Kumar, Rajinder Kumar, Shanker Gautam, KashmirChand, Ram Balak,Kuldeep Singh, Gulshan Kumar, Harjit Kumar, Ishwar dyal,Rajiv, among others, were also present.