Over 200 Part-Time Education Employees Attend Union Assembly in Rangat

Tarun Karthick

Sri Vijaya Puram, 13 October 2025

The Education Department Part-time Employees Union held a gathering on the Zilla Parishad Hall in Rangat on Saturday, drawing participation from greater than 200 part-time workers working throughout Middle Andaman.

The assembly was inaugurated by D. Ayyappan, Vice President of the CITU A & N State Committee, who highlighted issues over large-scale outsourcing of presidency jobs. He famous that whereas over a lakh of youth within the Andaman & Nicobar Islands stay unemployed, 1000’s of posts in numerous departments underneath the Administration proceed to remain vacant. Ayyappan additionally criticized the federal government for not offering equal pay for equal work, a precept established by the Supreme Court, and mentioned that the demand to regularize almost 9,500 daily-rated staff had been rejected.

Projit Kumar Sarkar, President of the CITU Rangat Zonal Committee, addressed the gathering and urged part-time academics and workers to strengthen the union. He emphasised the necessity to pursue calls for for regularization of providers, wage hikes, and continuity of employment.

S. Bindu Kumari, Treasurer, outlined the problems and calls for of part-time workers that the Union and CITU have been elevating over the previous three years. M. Mala, Joint Secretary of the Union, was additionally current, whereas Sukumar Roy presided over the assembly.