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JAC stir to protest against Govt. `neglect'

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD Feb.19. Employees of aided degree and junior colleges under the banner of the Joint Council of Action are embarking on an agitation to protest against the Government's alleged negligent attitude towards their problems.

The council comprises the Affiliated College Teachers' Association, Junior Colleges Lecturers' Association, Association of Principals of Private Affiliated Colleges, AP, and AP Aided Colleges Non-teaching Staff Association.

The agitational programme includes observance of a protest day on February 20 and staging of a mass dharna on February 28 at the office of Director of Collegiate Education, the council leaders M.V.V.Subba Rao, chairman, Govinda Swamy, president, and G. Sridhara Reddy, general secretary, announced here on Wednesday.

They told a press conference that the council would meet on February 28 at Amiya Bhavan, Nampally, to finanlise the future course of action, including intensification of agitation leading to a mass rally and culminating in an indetifine strike.

The council leaders charged that the employees had not received their salaries for the last two months and that there was no budget for the current month.

They condemned the "discriminatory'' policy of the State government in denying the national eligibility test/State-level eligibility test exemption to in-service lecturers of the aided degree colleges, while it had already been extended to the lecturers of Government degree colleges.

The leaders objected to changing the 1965 pattern of the non-teaching staff in the aided junior and degree colleges, which was adversely affecting the promotional chances of in-service employees, employment opportunities of the educated unemployed and also the smooth functioning of the colleges.

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