Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 12: Jammu and Kashmir ITI Contractual Instructors Union held mass protest demonstration in front of Director Technical Education today to focus the attention of the authorities concerned towards their just and genuine demands.
Their demands pertained to Regularization of vocational instructors working as Academic Arrangement for the past seven years; Enhancement in their salary at par with consolidated rate employees; To get the process of interview initiated by SSRB from the posts on which incumbents are already working, stopped immediately; and To withdraw the above referred posts of vocational instructors from J&K Service Selection Board.
Hundreds of contractual vocational instructors from various districts of the State participated in the demonstration. While addressing president of National Trade Union Front Mohd Gafoor Dar urged the Government and concerned authorities of Technical Education to settle the demands of vocational instructors of ITIs on priority basis.
Later a delegation of the Vocational Instructors Union led by Gafoor Dar called on Director Technical Education and discussed the problems of vocational instructors. The Director assured to take up their demands with the Government.
Others who addressed included Ghulam Rasool Geelani, Nishat Ahmed Raina, Molvi Nazir Ahmad, Farooq Ahmad Sheikh, Nisar Ahmed Lone, Manzoor Ahmed, Bilal Ahmed, Parvaiz Ahmed, Rayees Ahmed, Intizar Hussain, Zulfkar Ahmed, Reyaz Ahmed, Ghulam Mohidin, Faisal and Mohd Maqbool.