Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 20: A meeting of Executive Committee of J&K United School Teachers Association (USTA) was held under the chairmanship of Rajeev Kumar, its President, to discuss present education scenario and long pending demands of the teaching community.
The meet urged the Government authorities to withdraw teachers from all type of non- academic duties, provide proper heating system and other infrastructure to teachers working under COVID-19 at Lakhanpur and various railway stations, withdraw DA freeze order, release pending pay and other arrears of different category of teachers, regularize incharge Lecturers, Headmasters and other officers without further delay, fill all existing vacancies of Masters, Lecturers, Headmasters, Principals and ZEOs etc, implement norm based transfer policy and transfer all Teachers, Masters, Headmasters, Lecturers at once working in winter zones after code of conduct is lifted, adjust all left out newly promoted Lecturers in various subjects who are waiting for their adjustments for over an year.
While speaking on the occasion, Hari Singh, General Secretary USTA, said that education of school going children during the current pandemic was severely hampered and no concrete roadmap was adopted by the Government. Pointing out that large number of Teachers, Masters and Lecturers were engaged in various non – academic duties even during night hours at the cost of poor students, he stressed upon the Government to find an alternative to the current practice so that education of children may not suffer any more.
USTA further expressed its great anguish over the unwanted delay in the process of DPC of various cadres in the Education Department due to which a large number of institutions and schools are running headless. “Further, it is a matter of great concern that authorities are sleeping on the process of regularization and large numbers of incharge Lecturers, Headmasters and other officers are not being regularized on one pretext or the other,” said the USTA and appealed authorities to take a lenient view and fulfill the genuine demands otherwise the teaching community will be compelled to resort to agitation in the near future.
The meeting was attended by Younus Rahi, Pardeep Singh, Roop Chand, Raj Kumar, Kanta Devi, Ganesh Dutt, Angadh Singh, Sunil Thaoa, Zulifkar Ali, Malik Anju Saini, Sandesh Kumar and others.
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