Vets disrupt Kisan Mela,seek regularisation of jobs

Khinda added,“We get meager salary. Even a Class IV employee posted in our department gets a higher wage than us and the worse part is that Punjab government has no surplus of vet doctors. College of Veterinary Sciences GADVASU is the only college which produces some 45 qualified vets each year out of which 10-15 leave for foreign shores leaving just 30 behind. It is sad that this government cannot adjust 30 vets and at the same time it is allowing opening of private veterinary colleges in the state. By doing so,the Badal government is making a fool of the youth especially of the rural youth.”

The protesting youth remarked,“While making speeches in the public,Badal himself says that anybody working for three years on a contract should be regularized but the animal husbandry minister says he can regularize only 125 persons what about others. We have met and talked to all the officials concerned but our pleas have fallen on deaf ears. Currently,we have boycotted some of additional services to press our demands. We have been working for four years without any increments. Today’s protest was a wake up call for the government.”

Meanwhile,the agitating professionals who were raising slogans in the well of the pandal suddenly rushed on to the stage where all the dignitaries including PAU V-C Dr M S Kang along with deans directors and members of the board of management were seated.