USTA members leave for taking part in people’s march to Parliament today

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 18: A number of teachers from Jammu and Kashmir under the banner of J&K United School Teachers Association (USTA), led by Hari Singh and Rajeev Kumar, its president and general secretary respectively, left for New Delhi to take part in people’s march to Parliament which will be held on Feb 19, 2019 .
This historical march is being organised on the call of the Joint Fourm for Movement on Education (JFME), a national level platform of different organisations of students, university teachers, college teachers , school teachers and retired employees etc, on the theme `Save Education , Save Campus ,Save Nation’ .
USTA has expressed its disappointment and dismay at the negative role played by the successive Governments through the decades of neo liberal economical policies and reforms which lead to undermining and deteriorating the public funded schools, colleges , university and research institutions.
People’s march to Parliament is being organised to pressurise Central and State Government to concede to the demands like extending right to education to cover higher education upto PG level, establish fully State funded and free common education system from KG to PG, strengthening Government schools by implementing the Allahabad High Court Judgement on Government Schools throughout the country, insure equal pay for equal work and timely release of wages, give preference to Government school students in Public -funded institution of Higher Education and Public Sector jobs, immediately stops closer/merger of Government schools, spent 10 percent of GDP on education, abolish new pension schemes and restore old pension schemes, make permanent appointments against all substantive teaching and non-teaching post, absorb/regularise all Contractual , Consolidator appointed teachers and staff, give regular and assured promotions to retain talent in education and resolve all existing pay related anomalies, reverse communalisation in education by promoting secular values in all levels from KG to PG and stop commercialization , privatization and centralization of education.
Those who left Jammu for taking part in the march, included Pardeep Singh, Zulfkar Ali Malik, Thuru Ram, Raj Kumar, Bali Mohd, Noor Alam, Sandesh Kumar, Rattan Chand, Mohd Ali, Sohan Singh, Nand Kishor, Keliash Singh, Sher Ali, Suresh Kumar, Khalil Ahamed and others.

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