Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 1: Jammu Kashmir Teachers Forum has distanced itself from the Teachers Joint Action Committee (TJAC), a common platform of JKTF and various ReT bodies, which was created in 2018 for highlighting the issues of ReT cadre.
An emergency meeting of JKTF was held here today under the presidium of Ganesh Khajuria, Chairman JKTF, State President Mohd Akbar Khan and others to discuss about the issue. It was reminded that a joint meeting was convened in the month of May 2018 in the central office of JKTF Bemina, Srinagar under the Chairmanship of the then Chairman JKTF, in which all the heads of different RReTs ,ReTs, EVs and Jammu Kashmir Teachers Forum participated. During that joint meeting , an agreement was reached between these different groups and it was decided to form a common platform of Teachers Joint Action Committee (TJAC).
According to a statement issued by JKTF, it was unanimously decided in that meeting that the platform would function under the direct leadership of Chairman JKTF and nobody will issue any statement in Social Media, Electronic or Print media before the prior permission of the president of TJAC.
Further, it was also decided that after the permanent solution of the ReTs, RReTs and EVs, all the groups associated with under one umbrella TJAC will automatically disassociate themselves from the common platform TJAC and it will become null and void immediately. The original copy of the agreement between these groups is still lying with the JKTF, the Forum claimed.
Maintaining that the issues of ReTs, RRETs, EVs have got almost resolved under the banner of TJAC and there remains no need of any joint platform, the JKTF distances itself from JKTJAC. Most of the associated groups have changed their nomenclature and it seems to be a kind of fun and breach of trust to name a single unit as a Joint Action Committee, the meet further said.
Those who attended the JKTF meeting, included Yograj Slathia, Surat Singh Toofani, Mohd Shafi Rather, Darshan Sharma, Kuldeep Singh Bandral, Mohd Akbar Dar, Thoker Bashir, Kuldeep Verma, Haji Mohd Iqbal, Gopal Singh, Raj Singh, Sham Badyal and P D Singh.