The experience of college part time teachers have never been recognized by the Govt., not to mention their dedication & devotion to their service over the years, which too have been slighted. On one hand when college Lab instructors/lab assistants who are but graduates, have been proposed to be paid the scale of a full time professor, teachers who are Masters degree holders have been threatened with the termination of their service by the Hon'ble HE minister. The previous state govt had assured these teachers with a tenure of service till the age of 60, and the present govt, ignoring all their contribution of over the years, threatens to sack them! Are these teachers, to be humiliated & ill treated thus constantly, & left to the mercy of destiny till they reach the end of their service? Have these teachers not played their roles in nation building over the years? Many govt & private high level officials have been tutored by these 'incapable' or 'inefficient' teachers, as the govt prefers to call them. This is probably the reward that a teacher in our society deserves after giving away decades, prime years of their lives, in loving, guiding & nurturing young minds, for the benefit of the nation. To stop such repeated injustice, these hapless teachers will again move to the streets in the month of September. We appeal to all part time teachers to join hands with us, in our fight for rights, against oppression & injustice.
Elora Biswas
