Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 14: JKNPP activists today held a strong protest demonstration outside the office of Director School Education Jammu alleging breakdown of the Education sector in the State.
They also blocked the Roop Nagar road in front of DSE office resulting in disruption of traffic. The protesters, led by Rajesh Padgotra, provincial president JKNPP, along with several other leaders, raised slogans against the Education Department for alleged violation of norms, acute paucity of teaching staff in rural areas schools besides other irregularities in the functioning of Education Department.
Speaking on the occasion, Rajesh Padgotra flayed the Education Department for failing to provide the bare minimum staff in the difficult and far flung area schools. He said that large scale attachments in cities and towns and modifications of the transfer orders issued earlier to rural areas for vested interests were responsible for the sufferings of the students of remote areas. He said that several schools in the zones of Dudu, Bani, Kulwanta besides others had became non functional with students of HSS Khaned having resorted to agitational course for the last more than a month for non availability of staff. He further castigated the civil and police administration of Dudu Basantgarh for threatening the students to refrain from protesting and from raising anti-Government slogans. He said that rather than providing the much needed staff in such schools, the Education Department was persisting with whimsical transfers, modifications and attachments for reasons best known to them.
Sham Gorka, vice-president, said that the much trumpeted transfer policy was being ruthlessly violated with transfers of winter zone teachers being made in summers and summer zone teachers in winters in contravention of laid down guidelines. He appealed the Education Minister to take due notice of the blatant violations of norms, and SOPs in the department.
Others who spoke, included Shanker Singh Chib, Parshotam Parihar, Nirmal Kishore, Rakesh Verma, Joginder Kumar, Ashok Bhagat, Narinder Sharma, Ravinder Jamwal and Parveen Sharma.
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