TRS govt exploiting contract lecturers: Congress

• Party chief spokesperson Sravan Dasoju joins dharna of contract lecturers in Osmania University
• Promises to take the issues concerning contract lecturers to the Manifesto Committee of the Congress

Hyderabad: Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) chief spokesperson Sravan Dasoju accused the TRS government of exploiting the contract lecturers across the State.

Addressing the dharna organised by ‘Contract Lectures of Self-Financing Courses’ on Osmania University premises here on Wednesday, Sravan said caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao had come to power on the promise of scrapping the entire contract system in employment.

However, he said, KCR has failed to regularise the services of contract employees, including lecturers, during the last four-and-a-half years and now the Assembly has also been dissolved.

“While the system of contract lecturers itself is an intellectual exploitation, the contract lecturers in self-financing courses are in worst form.

By issuing GO MS No. 11, the TRS government took the exploitation of contract lecturers to a new level,” he said.

The Congress leader asked KCR to clarify as to how many contract lecturers were regularised by TRS regime and how many lecturers were freshly appointed on contract basis.

He said the TRS government has turned so brutal towards contract lecturers that it prevented them from staging a dharna. They even took away the tent from dharna camp so that the protesting contract lectures leave the place because of heavy rains.

The Congress leader said that students and teachers have played a major role in Telangana statehood movement.

However, the TRS government completely neglected them forcing them to hit the streets in protest. Stating that he himself had studied in Osmania University, Sravan said earlier only students used to hold dharnas for various demands.

But now, the situation has turned worse that even lecturers were forced to hold dharnas for their rights. He alleged that the varsity administration was acting with vengeance against students as they had resolved not to allow K Chandrashekar Rao to step into OU premises.

Sravan said with over 50 per cent posts in Osmania University lying vacant, how could one expect the standard of education to improve.

The Congress leader further added that the issues concerning contract lecturers would be referred to the Manifesto Committee of Congress party headed by former Deputy CM Damodara Rajanarasimha.

He invited the lecturers of all universities to Gandhi Bhavan to share their views so that the Congress party could come up with a good manifesto which could resolve all existing problems.