Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 24: An emergent meeting of All J&K Plus 2 Lecturers’ Forum was held under the chairmanship of Deepak Sharma, State president to discuss the proposed establishment of State Council of Educational Research and Trainings (SCERT) in J&K.
Forum in one voice flayed and condemned the discriminatory approach of Chairperson J&K Board of School Education, who has recommended the engagement of majority of officers drawn from Higher Education Department in the proposed SCERT instead of those from School Education Department contrary to the norms/structure of existing SCERTs throughout the country.
Deepak Sharma informed the house that SCERT is an academic authority for improving the quality of School Education focussing on In-service and pre-service teacher training programmes, research projects, curriculum development, course development, development of Publication and dissemination of teaching learning material etc for School Education Department, exclusively under the control of Secretary School Education Department . A Committee headed by Chairperson J&K Board of School Education was constituted to submit the recommendations for structure /establishment of SCERT J&K and for this purpose, various sub committees were framed and teams were deputed to various State to study the functioning/structure of the existing SCERTs. The reports submitted in this connection clearly stated that majority of the faculty/Officers in these SCERTs were drawn from the School Education Department only.
“But the incumbent Chairperson J&K BOSE, whose parent department is Higher Education Department, has applied partisan and discriminatory approach and given undue favour to her College Teaching Fraternity thereby flouting the norms and guidelines of NCTE and has tried to transgress the very fundamental rights of officers/academicians of School Education Department ,” the Forum alleged.
Deepak Sharma appealed the Governor and sought his personal intervention in the matter for the rejection of proposal submitted by Chairperson J&K BOSE to Secretary School Education Department and demanded the appointment/engagement of officers/ academicians exclusively from School Education Department in the proposed SCERT. “Otherwise, the Forum will be forced to adopt agitational path and will go to any extent including boycott of all forthcoming J&K Board assignments for safeguarding their fundamental rights,” he warned.
Those who were present in the meeting, included N S Jamwal, Charan Dass, Anil Sharma , R S Salathia, Sanjay Bhagat, Pardeep Singh and Anwar Khan.
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