Sir,
In reference to the front page news item of, the DE dated 23rd Dec. under heading “J&K to have eight new Joint Directors Education”, no doubt the Cabinet Sub Committee on cadre review of Administrative Services has shown its concern to sort out the visible irritants of the two most honourable cadres for sharing the prestigious posts and also to accommodate more such officers in our State, by creating eight new posts , but I feel that the axe should not fall on the highly qualified teachers of the schools, by debarring them to take up the job of a Joint Director of Education, for which they deserve very richly and of course are competent enough to deliver the goods while occupying such position.
Well, these are only the recommendations and are yet to be okeyed in the Cabinet meeting, but before it becomes an order of the Government, I personally feel that there is lot of scope to re-examine the idea for recommending these posts to be occupied only by KAS officers, when we have plenty of qualified and suitable teachers in the Department to take on these responsibilities . There is no harm in reconsidering the issue, especially when we find lot of resentment among the teaching class, already having appeared in the papers, immediately after the publication of said news and find out a better solution of the problems which were disturbing the minds of the respectable members of the Cabinet Sub Committee, while reaching such a decision to accommodate the KAS Officers, whose services can otherwise be utilised in many other fields, which are at par with IAS officers.
It will be very fine and logically a perfect decision to have a KAS Officer as Director of Education and under him/her, a team of Joint Directors, from the teaching cadre, so that the Education Department gets maximum benefit of their joint efforts having experiences from different fields. The fact can’t be denied that the teachers having spent a long length of service in the Department, are bound to deliver, comparatively better guidelines and practically workable solution to the problems cropping up in the Department and if this is so, why to do injustice with our Education Department.
It is on record that we had earlier also great teachers, on higher posts like Educational Advisor and Dy Director, in the Education Department, who prior to joining these posts, had been serving Principals of Colleges and with their vast experiences as teachers, the Department’s functioning and achievements graph, always kept increasing. So keeping those successes of the Department at the back of the minds of the Sub- Committee, ( which is being headed again by a teacher ), it is hoped that the committee would reconsider its recommendations and would strongly suggest to allow these posts of Joint Directors to be held only by the deserving teachers , which would be very much in the interests of both the cadres.
Yours etc….
J M Behl, 268- A,
Sainik Colony, Jammu
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