Dear Sir,
A. I went through your narration of the Mess Workers agitational approach and your Appeal which is in a standard language and format coming from any Establishment any time anywhere. It raises several questions to which the great intellectuals present in IITK for all the 55 years with ever changing generations could not find a solution. It must be a shame on the competence of the Managers of IITK which includes Academics too.
The country believes and expects IITs and other Institutes of Higher learning to solve all the problems of all varieties of the present and future. IITK fails to solve a perennial problem of Mess Workers who will continue to be part and parcel of the IITK establishment ever.
- How can IITK claim to provide consultancy and solution to issues outside world?
- Where are all the theories of HSS and all the models and curves of Management and Engg. theories gone on this issue?
- Does it mean that the Learned men of IITK have proved to be incompetent?
- If the standard techniques used by IITK faculty to evaluate students are used the whole set of Administration of which Faculty forms a part seem to have crumbled.
- Naturally you cannot do better than threatening the striking Mess Workers with dire consequences and .......in your last para.
B. Quality of Food served to students in Hall Mess has a number of variants, some of them are as follows:
- Quality of purchased Raw Food material
- Level of Facilities for storing and processing the Food items in Cooking area
- Process of recruitment of the Mess Workers incl their past experience, specialisation in Food preparation, serving etc.
- Training and counselling of the hired workers
- Level of corruption between the Contractors and people responsible for Hall mgt.
It is clear that with respect to the bad quality food served to students in the Mess the contribution of Workers responsibility is not much.
C. All the story of Permanent Mess Workers not working/ serving is a hoax created by the incompetent people. If the permanency is questionable the same should apply to Faculty and Administrators
A long term stable answers to this issue hanging for lifetime since the beginning of the IITK could be found only if the vested and corrupt interests inside the IITK allow searching for it by looking / trying for Out of the Box solution.
- by recognising the Workers as Human Beings as much as any of the Faculty or Administrators
- by democratising the system and involving the Workers in running the affairs of the Mess
- by incorporating same and similar service conditions in terms of pay, safety, job security, allowances, medical facilities, residences, schooling for their children for all the Workers as their whose job is of perennial nature
- by making all attempts to reduce conflict interface.
All the Best,
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Subject: [All] Communique on the Ongoing Agitation of the Daily Wage Mess Workers Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 22:18:50 +0530 From: Prof. N.N. Kishore Reply-To: registrar@iitk.ac.in To: all@lists.iitk.ac.in
*INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KANPUR*****/A COMMUNIQUE ON THE ONGOING AGITATION / /OF THE DAILY WAGE MESS WORKERS/ As the campus community may be aware, the Daily Wage Mess Workers (DWWs), numbering 60 are agitating demanding regularization of their services in the Institute and in pursuance there of they have staged a hunger strike at the main gate of the Institute.It may be recalled that earlier inSeptember 2010 also they had carried out an agitation demanding regularization of their services in the Institute. Finally, on 04.09.2010 a compromise was reached between the group of wardens and the representatives of DWWs, according to which they were accorded certain facilities and concessions, such as, medical facilities, provident fund facilities, festival advance, admission of their wards in the campus school, review of their skill levels and food in halls. It was also a condition of the said compromise that this arrangement will continue till the DWWs in messes attain the age of 60 years or otherwise withdraws from this arrangement provided DWWs shall be expected to be medically fit, obedient, punctual and devoted to the task that may be assigned to them. However, in the event any conduct of a DWW is found to be wanting, appropriate disciplinary action shall be taken by the HECs. This compromise was reached as the final redressal of all outstanding grievances of DWWs in messes. However, they have reneged on their part of the obligation and again went on an agitation. The Institute in this regard had constituted a high level committee comprising two Deans and a Head of Department.This high level committee has made sincere and bonafide attempts to bring about an amicable settlement in the matter. Even the Director and the Dy Director along with some of the Deans of the Institute have held lengthy discussions with them advising them to desist from carrying out this agitation, but so far the representatives of DWWs have been frustrating all such attempts. Needless to mention, the Institute is still trying to dissuade them from continuing with their agitation and requests all stake holders to cooperate with the Institute in maintaining peace and tranquility on the campus. If all attempts to maintain discipline and peace through negotiations fail, the Institute would apply the available instruments to prevent disruption to normal functioning within the Institute premises, as per rules. N.N. Kishore Professor-In-Charge (Administration)************************************************* Prof. N.N. Kishore Professor-in-Charge (Admin) Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur - 208016 (Off.)0512-259 7808, 6434 (Fax)2590465 (R)8793 ****************************** *******************
