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The hunger strike launched by the leader of the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) teachers’ association, HS Kingra, entered its second day on Thursday.
According to a member of the association, Kingra was showing signs of weakness but he is still doing well.
Meanwhile, PAU DPL employees continued to demonstrate outside the university’s Thapar Hall on Thursday.
The protesting employees said they were working on meager income and many of them had been working on a contract basis for 20 years, but they are still not regularized.
Employees have been demonstrating in open ground for three days and intend to continue their agitation until their demands are satisfied.
It can be noted here that on Wednesday, the teachers’ unions of the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) and the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Guru Angad Dev (GADVASU), as well as members of the Welfare Association being Chowkidar DPL PAU, had led a demonstration in front of the Thapar room of the UPA.
The teachers’ union had demanded the revision of the UGC’s salary grids and the withdrawal of the decision to dissociate universities from the grids, while contract employees and DPL pressed for the regularization of former employees and the increase of the grid. salary.
Ashwani Kumar, president of the GADVASU Teachers Association, said higher education institutes across the state remain closed to support the ongoing protest.
Addressing the protesters, Jagwant Singh, secretary general of PFUCTO, criticized the state government for its inability to respond to “real” demands.
“The government is determined to destroy public educational institutions because they are closely linked to private universities. This fight is less about scales than about the future of higher education, â€he said.
Chamkaur Singh, president of the Chowkidar DPL PAU Welfare Association, said they would continue to fight for their demands. Security guards, gardeners and other employees also left their posts at 5 p.m. and joined the protest outside Thapar Hall.
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