Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 28: Jammu Kashmir Teachers’ Association (JKTA) organised conferences at Poonch under the chairmanship of District President Poonch Ishaq Khayal and at Rajouri under the leadership of District President Mohd Mahroof.
UT President JKTA and National Convenor AIPRUF, Bhupinder Singh was the chief guest in both the conferences. UT Vice Chairman JKTA Javed Chouhan, Patron Kuldeep Katoach, Convenor Irfan Bajran, Coordinator Sunil Salaria, Advisor Shoket Chouhan , Deputy Secretary Farooq Tanha , District Chairman Shafiq Chouhan , Provincial Vice President Uttam Singh, Provincial Publicity Secretary Joginder Singh and Surjeet Singh were special guests on the occasion .
While speaking in these conference, Bhupinder Singh raised the burning issues of the teaching fraternity. He appealed the Government to frame a comprehensive transfer policy in favour of teachers appointed under ReT scheme as they have been serving in same schools for last more than 21 years. Raising issue of inclusion of five years ReT period for seniority benefits , he sought the favour of the department in the court to resolve it .
He appealed the LG administration to restore old pension scheme for all the NPS employees of Jammu and Kashmir appointed after 01.01.2010 and also demanded rationalisation of teaching staff to overcome the shortage of staff in rural areas. He also demanded raising of grade of teachers at par with their counterparts in other UTs.
Others, who also spoke on the occasion, included Jasbir Singh Thakur, Sadiq Poswal, Latief Sb, Mohd Farooq, Tahir Javid, Haresh Sharma, Satwant Singh, Sanjeev Kumar, Subash Dutta, Chander Dutta and Dharam Paul.
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