Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU Nov 24:JKNPP activists held a strong demonstration, here today, in protest against the failure of the State Government to address the issues and genuine concerns of the teachers and ReTs working in the State.
A number of Panthers Party workers, led by JKNPP chairman Harshdev Singh, president, State president Balwant Singh Mankotia and Young Panthers president, Yash Paul Kundal, assembled near the Press Club and staged a protest urging upon the Government to break the impasse created due to unrest amongst the teaching community and the resultant irreparable losses to the students.
Speaking on the occasion, Harshdev Singh accused the State Government of doling out the most abominable and contemptuous treatment to the teaching community, considered to be the most enlightened section of society. He lambasted the Government for its refusal to respond to the genuine concerns of the teachers who had been deprived of their hard earned wages for the last more than seven months. He regretted that the teachers, education volunteers and ReTs appointed under SSA, RMSA, were ultimately forced to resort to agitational course due to the apathetic approach of the concerned authorities.
Strongly condemning the State Government for its despicable apathy and culpable neglect of the genuine aspirations of the teaching class, Harshdev Singh vowed to fight shoulder to shoulder with the aggrieved teachers and ReTs in their struggle for justice.
Balwant Singh Mankotia and Yash Paul Kundal also flayed the highly repressive and implacable policies of the State Government with regard to the teaching community. They said that the teachers / ReTs were being browbeaten in the name of screening tests, written tests and verification of their degrees and educational qualifications. While the Government is within its rights to take lawful action against those having fraudulent degrees, it is highly improper and unjust to vilify and revile the entire teaching community and to withhold salaries of all ReTs besides other teachers, they added.
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