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Restore Telephone connection

Sir,

Deptt. of Telecom. or TRAI it makes no difference towards inefficient services to the hapless user. My Telephone 544935 went out of order on 24. X.2K, and same day I got the complaint booked under No. 190704. and for all these past six days I have established contact with any body and every body in the deptt. who counts for the purpose but without any thing positive. Passing the buck seems to be the order of the day, as explanations put forth by various functionaries range for the fault to be overground, internal, underground and Exchange Fault etc.

Through your esteemed newspaper I intend sending a wake up call to the drowsy officers of the deptt. to look into this specific problem in particular and other similar complaints in general.

Yours etc...
K V Gupta
75, Gurha Bakshinagar, Jammu.

Monkey Menace

Sir,

May the concerned wildlife authorities hear our grievances through this esteemed paper and take action at the earliest. It is before one year that two monkeys appeared in our area. Happily these two were a couple. After some time a third one was born to them. After increasing in number they became more powerful. They started teasing the innocent people most probably the older ones and children. At random they come inside rooms. They snatch the eatables from whom they want. Within a second they appear before a person and leave him transfixed. It is before six months of time that an old lady was walking on her roof top. Suddenly the monkeys appeared at her back and fell her down. With the result her right leg got fractured. It took her six months to recover. Second instance is that before a month my brother's son was playing with his mother in the court-yard. Suddenly the monkeys appeared before them. As the boy tired to take his shuttle cock from the wall, the monkey caught hold of his neck. As a good luck the boy got rescued from the monkeys hand but unfortunately the monkey scratched his ear with the nail. It took him Rs 2000/- to vaccinate five injections. I only quoted two instances. There are several such instances which I can't write.

We approached the concerned authorities several times but all in vain. They can't ignore their duties to protect the human beings from these wild animals who have created really terror in our area. Children can't move outside homes. Under the Wild Life Protection Act it becomes their duty to catch hold of these animals as they have trained staff otherwise their population will increase day by day which shall create a great problem for the residents of the area.

So it is humbly requested to the concerned authorities to take action in this regard.

Yours etc...
Rajender Pandita
Kabir Chowk
Durga Nagar Sector Ist (Bantalab)

Teachers and Rahbar-e-Taleem Scheme

Sir,

The falling standard of Primary Education in J&K State cannot be improved by the teachers appointed under the Rehbar-e-Taleem Scheme. The minimum qualification for the appointment of a teacher under the scheme is mere to 10+2 pass local village candidate. Unless and until there is +2 pass local village candidate available, no highly qualified even MA B.Ed from the neighbouring village can be appointed and there is abundance of +2 pass candidates in every village. In some villages well qualified candidates are available but there is no vacant post. They are waiting and in the other village mere +2 passed are being appointed. It is a big injustice with the well qualified candidates. Just imagine what justice can a mere +2 passed candidate do with the students? Can he become a builder of the nation. This scheme can be a temporary measure to run the defunct schools only and nothing else.

Then there is another injustice with the highly qualified candidates (M.A B.Ed) appointed under the scheme who have attained the age group 34 to 36 years when after 5 years at the time of regularisation their age qualification will be considered again. As the last lines of Govt Order No. 396-Edu of 2000 dated 28.4.2000 of regularisation para are read as under - ''At the time of consideration for formal appointment in the Government, if a teacher is found not to fulfil age qualification, then his/her employment would be on contractual basis for future.'' What a mockery with Education it is that a +2 pass candidate can be regularised as a full fledged teacher but MA B.Ed. will remain on contractual basis because after five years he would have gone over age. His only fault is that he has well qualified himself for a teacher and then waited upto the age of 36 years to get the job of a teacher and also served for 5 years on Rs 1500/- per month and Rs 2000/- on monthly honorarium for the first two years and last three years respectively. Hence the necessary modification is required to be made immediately in the Scheme by the Government.

It is, therefore, requested to the concerned authorities to issue modification orders keeping in view the careers of the highly qualified candidates.

Yours etc...
C R Khajuria
Patayari (Surara)
Tehsil Hiranagar.