Asaduddin Owaisi urges CM Revanth to regularise contract asst professors in Telangana
Hyderabad: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has urged chief minister A Revanth Reddy to regularise the contract assistant professors in Telangana, as promised in the Congress’ election manifesto.
Addressing a gathering of girl students during the foundation-stone laying ceremony of the new academic blocks of Veeranari Chakali Ilamma Women’s University (formerly Koti Women’s College) in Hyderabad on Saturday, March 8, Owaisi pointed out that Himachal Pradesh and Punjab have already regularised the contract assistant professors and after the Supreme Court’s verdict in favour of the move, the Centre has also issued an office memorandum in its support.
“There is a need to end patriarchy. Men needed to change their mindset, show tolerance, and listen to the voices of women with respect, and if there is truth in it, implement their ideas,” he said.
“I feel unfortunate to say that once a chief minister had asked the people to plant a sapling when a girl child is born. To sell the wood from the tree when she gets married. That same chief minister has become the prime minister of this country,” he said referring to PM Modi.
Owaisi stated that Telangana has the highest college density in the country and ranks second in the number of colleges per lakh population.
“While the gross enrollment in higher education in the country stands at 28 percent, in Telangana it is 41.6 percent,” he said, adding that the percentage of gross enrollment of Muslim girls and boys in higher education was better in Telangana when compared with other states.
Recollecting the history of the university’s campus, he said that it has been part of the history of India’s freedom struggle as Moulvi Alladin had waged a war against the British at the very campus where 30 freedom fighters were killed. “Moulvi Alladin was the first from Hyderabad to be lodged in the Andaman Jail, also known as Kaana Pani jail,” he said.
He urged the students to keep away from divisiveness and hatred.
Earlier, after attending the all-party meeting held at Praja Bhavan, Owaisi said that despite eight MPs representing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Telangana, the Union government has failed to sanction projects, giving a step-motherly treatment to Telangana.
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“The Telangana government had submitted the regional ring road (RRR) project to the ministry of roads and highways. Yet there has been no action by the Centre,” Owaisis told reporters.
There are other projects as well like the 94 acres for the land development of Bapu Ghat at Langer House was to be transferred by the Centre, the Rs 7,400 crore assistance for linking Musi and Godavari rivers, and supply of drinking water under Godavari Phase-II are yet to be sanctioned by the Centre, Owaisi said.
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