Sri Vijaya Puram, Oct. 12: A meeting of the Education Department Part-time Employees Union was held at Zilla Parishad Hall, Rangat on 11 October 2025. More than two hundred part-time employees of Education Department working in Middle Andaman attended the meeting.
Inaugurating the meeting, D. Ayyappan, Vice President, CITU A & N State Committee said that the central government is going ahead with large scale outsourcing of government jobs. In Andaman & Nicobar Islands, while more than a lakh youth are unemployed, BJP government is keeping thousands of posts vacant in various departments under the Administration. Ayyappan criticized the government for exploiting the educated unemployed youth of these islands by not paying equal pay for equal work, a principle laid down by the Supreme Court in various court cases. He said that the BJP government has already rejected the demand of CITU to regularize nearly 9500 daily rated workers working under the Administration.
Addressing the meeting, Projit Kumar Sarkar, President, CITU Rangat Zonal Committee said that the CITU has been continuously exposing the various anti-working class policies being pursued by the BJP-led central government during the last 11 years and called upon the part-time teachers and employees of the Education Department to strengthen the CITU to achieve their genuine demands of regularization of services, hike in the salary and continuous service, etc.
S. Bindu Kumari, Treasurer while addressing the gathering explained in brief the various demands/issues of Part-time employees taken up by the Union and CITU during the last three years. M. Mala, Joint Secretary of the Union was also present in the meeting. Sukumar Roy presided over the meeting.