Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 6: A day-long session of All Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh Teachers’ Federation (JKLTF) was held here today under the chairmanship of its president, Balwan Singh Jamwal, to discuss the problems of the teaching fraternity.
The representatives of the Central Executive Committee body also participated in the meeting. While addressing the session, president of the Federation, Balwan Singh, expressed serious concern over the present normless transfer policy causing a lot of harassment to the honest and dedicated teachers. He demanded the Government to make a fool proof transfer policy and be adhered to it.
The members also demanded the Government to bring back all the masters working outside the home districts for last 3 to 4 years, to their home districts.
All the participants in one voice demanded from the Government the post of Director School Education to be from the School Education Department.
The meeting highlighted other demands like cash-in-lieu benefit for the teaching fraternity on the pattern of other State Government employees, filling all vacant posts of teachers, masters, lecturers and non-teaching staff, release of salary grants timely, exemption of teachers from extra academic duties, providing authority to CEOs to transfer master within their districts and granting senior teacher grade to trained undergraduate teachers.
The president of the Federation requested the Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand to intervene personally to resolve the genuine demands of the teaching fraternity.
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