Wages of
ReT
Sir,
As your goodself is well
aware that at present the Rehbar-e-Talim
(ReT) teachers in the State are being
paid only Rs 15,00 per month. It is very
unjustified that doctorate, MA, BEd and
other degree holders who work as ReT are
being lesser than a casual labourer is
paid in a month.
We have heard that a
proposal to increase ReT teachers wages
was first approved by the then Education
Minister Harsh Dev Singh but the same has
been awaiting a Cabinet approval all this
while.
Since teaching profession is
highly regarded as one of the most
respectful and also the toughest jobs in
the society, we appeal the Government
that the ReT teachers' honorarium be
enhanced from Rs 1500 to Rs 5000 per
month and their regularization norms be
amended to regularize the ReTs as general
line teachers in three years than in five
years.
Such a decision will go a
long way boosting the morale of the whole
teaching community in the State.
Yours
etc.....
Tsewang Rigzin
Leh
'Ban
smoking '
Sir,
At the public places like
restaurants, hospital waiting rooms,
departmental stores, in the public
transport like buses and trains, not
partial but total ban should be imposed
on smoking. There is plenty of choice
otherwise and there cannot be any
compromise with the health of a
non-smoker. People who are addicted to
smoking can move in a private place, move
out in a street or out in open. Everybody
knows that smoking results in early aging
and early death due to the presence of
carcinogenic chemicals which cause
various cancers and physical disorders.
Even at home people smoke like anything.
They smoke in presence of Alcohol &
Drug Dependance
their children, in all
situations, at the cost of their health.
Besides passive smoking is sometimes more
dangerous and results in easy victims of
Nicotine. There has been a hot debate
going on in recent past that Bollywood
celebrities should restrict themselves
acting in such scenes which encourage
smoking because quite a number of youth
get lured towards it. To cite an example
of the most populous country of the
world- China, is home to one third of the
world smokers. With a population of a
billion and twenty crores, it is
estimated that as many as two thousand
billion cigarettes are smoked everyday- a
huge astronomical figure- that is twelve
zeros after two.
Thus it is imperative and
incumbent on the civil society to think
twice on this menace and initiate a
debate that would eventually rid the
society of this problem.
Yours
etc.....
Praveen Kaul
Kothia-Nater, Barnai,
Jammu
Garib
Rath for Jammu
Sir,
The introduction of Garib
Rath trains from New Delhi to Bihar is a
tribute to the imagination of the Railway
Ministry. These trains will travelling in
Air Conditioned comfort possible for
lower middle and middle class people. The
slashing down of rates by 50 percent is a
bold step. The philosophy of earning
profit through greater number of
passenger per train seems to be the
guiding Mantra in Garib Rath concept. So
far so good. The point that concern our
state is that the Railway Ministry should
start Garib Rath service from Delhi to
Jammu on daily basis. As we are aware
thousands of poeple travel from Jammu to
different parts of the country and vice
versa. Jammu caters to thousands of
pilgrims so the rush on the trains is
heavy. A daily Garib Rath service to
Jammu from Delhi would prove highly
beneficial to the general population. All
political parties whether in opposition
or in power along with prominent citizens
should impress upon the Railway Ministry
about the essentiality as well as
feasibility of starting a Garib Rath
service from Delhi to Jammu.
Yours
etc
Pawan Kumar Bansal
Gandih Nagar
Jammu
Movies
and censor certificates
Sir,
All Jammu theatres are
exhibiting Hindi and English movies and
large population goes to watch the
movies. Such movies are rated U, U/A or A
as per censor certificate. But the censor
rating is shown in the form of
certificate in the cinema hall only at
the start of the movie. Posters, which
are pasted in large number in the city
roads, do not show such censor rating. As
a consequence, a genuine family movie
watcher is mislead. He cannot foresee the
contents of the movie from the posters.
District administration is
requested to make it obligatory to
mention censor rating (U, U/I,A) on the
posters also.
Yours
etc.....
Parveen Chander
Talab Tillo
Jammu
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