Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, July 26: Physical Education Lecturers Forum held a meeting here today and projected their long-pending issues for early redressal by the State Government.
Almost all the members of the Forum attended the meeting and threw light on the problems being faced by them with regard to the issues of regularisation and pay disparity.
The members said that they were promoted in 2008 as Lecturers in Physical Education, vide Order No: 160 Tech- Edu, dated 24-04-2008 after the historic reorganisation of the Department, adding that despite completion of over 10 years, they are yet to be regularised to leave them in the lurch.
“Our documents have been scrutinised by the Department more than 5 times and we have submitted our APRs thrice with the Department. However, despite all this process, nothing has been done by the concerned authorities with regard to our regularisation/confirmation so far. Thinking of the same haunts us and shell-shocks us,” expressed rather lamented the members of the PEL Forum.
They said that the Department prepared a tentative seniority list of these hapless employees (192 PELs) in 2014 regarding regularisation, adding that the same is yet to be finalised for some unknown reasons.
“How shocking is it that on the one hand you observe seniority list of meagre 192 employees taking years together and on the other hand, you see the seniority lists of a big number of employees prepared and finalised each day in various Departments, ” said member of the Forum while expressing anguish over the sustained delay.
The members said that it is unbelievable that the teachers of the subject which is at number-2 after English as for as the number of students is concerned, receiving a squint-eyed treatment rather an indifferent treatment.
The members further said that the other cadres of the Department like teachers, masters etc have had the benefits of time-bound promotion, adding that so-called their promotion have debarred them from such benefits also.
The Forum has appealed Advisor to the Governor, Dr Vijay Kumar to kindly intervene in the matter and take initiatives to solve this long pending issue.
Prominent among those who attended the meeting included Surinder Singh, Rajinder Singh Choudhary, Sanjay Raina, Ajay Raina, Vinod Bhat, Tilak Raj Gupta, Ravi Kumar, Sanjeev Singh Smbyal, Imran Tasaduq Malik, Anjeel Kumar, Surinder Sharma, Arvind Kumar and Gurvinder Singh.
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