10, January 2010, the day was really a jubilant where 7th anniversary of Polytechnic SC, ST Association was celebrated at Sanketika Bhavan, Masab Tank, Hyderabd among eminent personalities Mr Premachandra Reddy, Commissioner of Technical Education; Mr Battula Punnaiah, Retained RJD of Technical Education and father of this union; Mr UVSN Murthy, JD; and Mr D Venkateswarulu, Joint Secretary, SBTET. With huge gathering of our faculty made the function a mega success. Many wondered how the POSTLAN was coined as the abbreviation to the union.
At the end Our Commissioner unveiled the association diaries; Joint Director unwrapped the Calendars, and have presented to dignitaries on the dais. Commissioner congratulated us on celebrating the 7th anniversary of POSTLAN and expressed his happiness over the unity and integrity of SC and ST Lecturers. He has promised to solve all problems of SC and ST lecturers in our department. He mentioned some of the issues that he had taken up.
The function has started on time at 10:30 am with lightening lamps to mark respect to Dr BR Ambedkar and followed by a prayer song. Subsequently, the fraternity condoled the death of Dr YS Raja Sekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy and maintained one minute silence to mark the respect to the beloved.
The podium was handed over to our president Mr I V Rao, and then the president asked our General Secretary Mr Saidulu to present the annual report. Mr Saidulu has presented various achievements that the union has taken up and put forth before the commissioner the promotions of our members which are pending and asked to resolve at the earliest.
Sri Battula Punnaiah, while delivering his speech, asked the faculty to spend the prescribed 50 minutes in classrooms and from which satisfy self, from which develop the self respect and then the self confidence to understand the problems of our community and to have the courage to take the problems up. He emphasized that we have the responsibility not only for ourselves but also to our community because our brothers are backward.
Mr Venkateswarulu, Joint Secretary, stressed the importance of issue presentations to higher authority. He said “our commissioner is ready to solve all issues once it is presented in credible manner”.
At last commissioner has started his address saying that he has two desires.
After the meet, we, the members of POSTLAN, have made the following issues on the discussion and found many positive answers:
1. Is a separate union necessary for SC and ST lecturers?
2. Why few of our members are unable to say as SC or ST and showing not much interest to join with us.
3. What are the responsibilities of our union? And how it is different from others.
The meet decided to have at least two zonal trips by the CEC every year to encourage the members and discuss their individual problems in order to bring it to the authorities concerned and to get it solved. Principals have come forward to reimburse the expenses incurred for printing diaries from next onwards. It is also decided to alter some of CEC members as their inevitability is certain having proficiency. And the new body is as follows:
New Central Executive:
President : I V Rao
General Secretary : M Saidulu
Treasurer : G Prabhakar Rao
Vice President : V Bapuji Naik
Associate President: D Bhushanam
Organising President : J Yohan
Secretary : K Manikya Rao
Secretary(Women) :
Joint Secretary :
Zonal Secreraties
I : CH Raju
II: P Kumar Babu
III: N Bhavani Sankar
IV: G Maria Das
V: P Gauri Sankar
VI: K Narasimha
Twin Cities: D Jaya Chandra
At last, it is the opinion of all the members that not only the unity and integrity but also the financial supports play important role to continue the union and make it active. With that aspect, some of our senior members voluntarily announced their contributions and before that the member of CEC had already handed over some amount to the treasurer. It is resolved in the meeting that Rs. 50=00 is the monthly subscription and this is the initial stage it is appreciated at this time to subscribe in lumsum of not less than one year subscriptions at a time. Members are requested to subscribe through their Zonal Secretaries.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
