Aurangabad: The Marathwada Association for Students (MAS) — a newly formed body representing kindergarten to post-graduate students — has asked the state government to devise a special policy for addressing the issue of unemployment in the region.The body has also demanded the government to exclude the region from the non-aided category. Ulhas Udhan, former management council member and founder president of the association, said Marathwada region is continuously being ignored by the state governments.“According to the Nagpur Pact that was signed at the time Marathwada’s merger with the state of Maharashtra, it was specifically mentioned that region’s people would be given preference in government jobs. But nothing has happened. The government should now follow provisions of the pact,” he said.In a statement issued on Saturday, Udhan said that all the four universities, including the agriculture universities, should be provided special assistance of Rs 200 crore and the government should ensure that important institutions are set up in the region.“Many posts of lecturers and teachers in colleges and schools are lying vacant for quite some time. We also demand the government to pay Rs 30,000 remuneration to the teachers who were working on clock-hour basis (CHB),” he said.“There were many vacancies in the social science departments in institutions across the region and the government was required to take initiative to fill these positions apart from adopting a special policy to address the issue of unemployment in Marathwada. The association has been formed to pursue these demands and if required, the students from the region would resort to severe agitation,” he added.

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