Haryana Contractual Professors Seek Job Security

In Haryana, India, about 1,400 teachers who work as contractual assistant professors in 14 state universities want the government to give them job security until they are 60 years old.

They met with the Chief Minister and the Education Minister to ask for a new law to be passed during the upcoming Winter Session of the Assembly, which starts on December 18.

The teachers have been waiting for over a year for this security.

Some of them have been working since 2010 and earn less than half of what regular professors with the same experience make.

The government is still gathering information from some universities before deciding whether to pass the law.

A committee was formed in December 2024 to look into making this change.