Excelsior Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Mar 26: Meeting of Jammu Kashmir Teacher/Master Association (JKTMA) was held here today under the chairmanship of UT president Rakesh Singh and State General secretary Vivek Gupta to discuss the various issues of transfer of Teachers and Masters.
While speaking on the occasion, Mr Singh urged Principal Secretary School Education Department to transfer the power of authority of transfer of Teachers to respective Chief Education Officer keeping in view various factors which cannot be considered at Directorate level.
“Pupil-Teacher ratio is always a major factor which was always ignored while considering transfers and most of the rural schools which have high enrollment mostly neglected while urban schools with low enrollment receive excess staff during transfer, and this issue of transfer of Teachers as per PTR can be resolved at District level by respective CEOs only,” he explained.
Singh also urged the Chief Electoral Officer, Jammu Kashmir to keep all Booth Level Officers,(BLO) out of ambit of transfer and issue necessary communication to the concern Education authorities not to transfer the Booth Level Officers from their present place of posting as it will hamper the ongoing Electoral process at booth level.
Singh also sought attention of Principal Secretary towards RBA selected Teachers for their transfer to their native place of backward area at least for seven years in order to overcome the deficiency of staff in rural areas. Pointing out that most of the rural areas do not have Math-specific teachers, he said that the teachers having Maths in Graduation should have separate transfer policy, so that each MS/HS/HSS receive at least one Maths specific teacher in the interest of students.
The Association also expressed strong resentment against the new policy of promotion of Teachers as Incharge Masters and urged the LG to intervene personally in this matter and promote Teachers as full fledge Master as per past practice. Association also passed resolution to expedite the process of DPC in Botany/Zoology by excluding Distance mode degrees as per recent high court judgements before commencement of new academic session.
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