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Decision on Lok Jumbish workers likely on June 10

By Our Special Correspondent

JAIPUR, JUNE 8. The fate of workers of Lok Jumbish -- a project launched by the Rajasthan Government for universalisation of elementary education with the Central assistance in 1992 -- will be decided at a meeting of the project's Executive Council here on June 10. The workers have demanded that they be absorbed into the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan after the project's stipulated scrapping.

The State Government is reportedly in favour of discontinuing Lok Jumbish after its third phase ends on June 30. The services of 932 workers employed on contract will automatically lapse with the project coming to an end, even though a Prospective Staff Pattern meeting of the Education Department had made a recommendation last year to shift the staff to the total literacy campaign. Official sources said here today that the Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje, "worried'' about the future of the Lok Jumbish employees, was in favour of taking an explicit decision on their absorption into other projects. Ms. Raje will herself preside over the meeting in her capacity as the Executive Council's ex-officio chairperson.

The Lok Jumbish Karmachari Union has pointed out that workers have completed six to 12 years of contract service and their dismissal at this stage would deprive them of their livelihood. "Most of the workers will not be able to find job anywhere else and their families would be adversely affected,'' says D.K. Chhangani, president of the union. According to the official sources, the Executive Council's meeting has been convened on June 10 with the objective of protecting the workers' interests well before the June 30 deadline. Besides Ms. Raje, the Council's vice-chairman and Education Minister, Ghanshyam Tiwari, the Panchayati Raj Minister, Kalulal Gujjar, and senior Government officials will attend the meeting.

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