Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 11: Deputy Chief Minister, Tara Chand today impressed upon officers of School Education Department to strictly adhere to the instructions issued by Administrative Department for ensuring smooth functioning of educational institutions of the State or otherwise face disciplinary action under rules for showing dereliction in performing their routine duties.
Deputy Chief Minister was addressing a State level officers meeting of School Education Department today, convened to review the pace of school mapping in RMSA and SSA, availability of teacher posts, pace of filling up vacancies, transfers of teachers and upgradation of schools.
Minister of State for School Education, Feroz Ahmed Khan was also present on the occasion.
Secretary School Education, Hirdesh Kumar, Director, School Education, Mir Tariq Ali, Director, School Education, Jammu, P. R. Pole, State Project Director, SSA, S. C. Sahni, Director, RMSA, H. A. Parray, CEOs, ZEOs and other senior officers of school education attended the meeting.
Reviewing the issue related to school mapping, Deputy Chief Minister directed for completion of the task within a week’s period, so that the required information is forwarded to Union Government well in time. Tara Chand appreciated CEO Anantnag for completing school mapping of the district in stipulated time frame and asked other CEOs to do the same by obtaining guidance from Administrative Department as well as CEO Anantnag.
Deputy Chief Minister took serious note of the transfers of teachers ordered by a number of CEOs on their own and directed the erring officers to explain their position for deviation of Government order in this behalf.
In order to ensure availability of teachers in all the schools of the State and to provide proper teaching facilities, Deputy Chief Minister ordered all the CEOs to identify posts of teachers under the RBA and ALC category in their districts, so that the process of recruitment against such vacancies is taken up on war footing basis.
He also took review of the pace of upgradation of various schools and sought details from concerned officers.
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