Vidhya Sahayak for teachers, Lok Rakshak for police and Gram Mitra in rural administration are "Gujarat State Sponsored Financial Exploitation"

A division bench of the Gujarat High Court, comprising Acting Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala, has observed last week, while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) that has challenged the Gujarat government policy to recruit young people on fixed salary for five years, that "It had “almost” made up its mind that the state government’s scheme to recruit Class III and IV employees on fixed salary for a fixed time frame was in violation of Constitutional provisions." Dr. Rajendra Shukla, president of the Shree Yogkshem Foundation for Human Dignity, the petitioner of the aforesaid PIL called the policy of Government of Gujarat as 'unlawful’ and ‘unfair’ labour practice, which is exploitative in nature and has recently further added in public that, "In our state of Gujarat, today 'State Sponsored Financial Exploitation' is practised, wherein the youth are employed on a fixed salary basis, like Vidhya Sahayak for teachers, Lok Rakshak for police and Gram Mitra in rural administration, which is a practice not followed anywhere else in the country. For instance, a youth will get employed for a meagre amount of Rs.1350 per month for five years. Imagine how his person would be running his house? Under the name of development, everything is hollow.”