Kichloo meets agitating temporary teachers

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 21: Former Minister and senior NC leader Sajjad Ahmed Kichloo (MLC) met the agitating contractual/ temporary teachers sitting on hunger strike outside Press Club of Jammu here.
The former Minister joined the agitating teachers and also spent some time with them. He also offered juice to a few of them whose condition had deteriorated. The NC leader assured them to take up their issue in the Legislature and also personally take up with the Education Minister Naeem Akhtar.
Mr Kichloo pointed out that nearly 8700 temporary teachers were engaged by the previous coalition Government during August-September 2014, to run the schools. He said with the regularization of  many ReT teachers many schools especially in rural faced acute shortage of teachers. In order to make these schools functional a Cabinet decision was taken in August last year and after inviting applications, these teachers were engaged under academic arrangements. Most of them are highly qualified and were selected on merit. Now throwing them out is most injustice with them. He demanded that these teachers be regularized by adopting some frame work as done in case of ReTs.
Many of them are going to be over aged. Government should consider their case sympathetically, he added.

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