Rehbar-e-Khel: Exploitation underneath the garb of employment

Launched with a lot fanfare, the J&Okay authorities’s Rehbar-e-Khel scheme has turned out to be a nightmare for the youth recruited by the federal government in youth service and sports activities division underneath the scheme.

Three years after their recruitment within the division, the candidates are hitting streets demanding enhancement in wage and framing of a job coverage for them.

The federal government in October formally adopted the Rehbar-e-Khel coverage (scheme) with creation of round 3000 posts Rehbar-e-Khel (ReK). The method was adopted by the engagement of candidates towards these 3000 positions when it comes to the coverage for the engagement of ReK.

All these candidates are rendering their providers largely within the authorities faculties for the previous three years. However through the years, these candidates have develop into the worst sufferer of exploitation as they’re paid simply Rs 100 a day. The candidates are B.PEd, M.PEd and a few possess PhD diploma as nicely. However for the federal government these certified tons will not be even at par with unskilled laborers who’re paid greater than Rs 500 a day.

The federal government recruited these candidates after it declared sports activities, video games and bodily schooling obligatory in all center, excessive and better secondary faculties in J&Okay. It was made obligatory for the division of youth providers and sports activities to supply providers of at the least one bodily schooling instructor within the faculties to implement the choice.

Then the federal government claimed it give attention to the “Health for all” slogan apart from promotion and popularization of sports activities in J&Okay. And in these final three years, the faculties witnessed a growth within the participation of scholars within the sports activities occasions be it indoor or outside with the right steering of those bodily academics recruited underneath the ReK scheme.

The particular person recruited as ReK acted as a catalyst to make sure the general character growth of the varsity youngsters. Whereas delivering their duties to broaden the spectrum of scholars when it comes to sports activities and assist them of their character growth, these ReKs have been subjected to psychological agony and melancholy.

On one hand, these ReKs are entrusted with the obligation of character growth of scholars whereas then again the identical lot is given step-motherly remedy.

Over time, the younger lot of ReK have given their blood and sweat in constructing the boldness among the many faculty youngsters at the price of their very own motivational energy and self-confidence due to the atrocities of the successive regimes. Rs 100 per day for these youth is in any respect not justified, come what might.

Throughout their providers within the division, these ReKs have contributed their bit to deliver in-parity within the faculties in imparting bodily schooling and stuffed the gaps when it comes to deficiency of bodily schooling employees within the faculties.

However there isn’t any justification with authorities to take credit score for all of the achievements in promotion of sports activities however ought to introspect and may cease additional exploitation of those youth.

The matter of truth is that these candidates weren’t handpicked by the federal government for his or her appointment as Rehbar-e-Khel however they gone by way of a rigorous choice course of solely to get exploited on the finish of the day.

On the time of the implementation of the scheme, the federal government determined that the month-to-month honorarium of ReK shall be Rs 3000 per 30 days for the primary two years which shall be later enhanced to Rs.4000 per 30 days from third to 7^th 12 months.

However the authorities had additionally claimed that the coverage shall be amended at any level of time with the intention to safe the job of those candidates together with the enhancement of their salaries as nicely.

Final 12 months, the federal government constituted a excessive degree committee to suggest the amendments to be made within the scheme by advantage of which the federal government would be capable to body a job coverage for these candidates and improve their wage as nicely.

Sadly, a 12 months has handed however there isn’t any constructive growth relating to this from the federal government aspect as a result of which the candidates recruited as Rehbar-e-Khel proceed to face exploitation from the federal government.

Even the federal government doesn’t even trouble to instruct the committee to submit its suggestion on enhancement of the wage and framing of a job coverage for these ReKs.

As per the contents of the coverage, the federal government has claimed to provoke the regularization of Rehbar-e-Khel staff in a staggered method on completion of their seven years of service. So, it means, the staff will proceed to get exploited with meager salaries given by the federal government.

Retaining in view the function of those ReKs the federal government ought to deal with their issues and cease additional exploitation of those recruits. If these candidates will proceed to face the identical method from the federal government they may clearly lose their motivation and confidence which can mar the core intention of the scheme launched within the faculties.

The Rehbar-e-Khel scheme can solely maintain if the federal government will encourage the recruits as a substitute of downing their morale and confidence by making them sufferer of ongoing exploitation. These ReKs at the least need to be handled at par with unskilled laborers. Authorities wants to deal with the grave problem until it’s too late.